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Memento Mori

Remembering Charis Conn

A story by former Harper's Magazine editor Charis Conn, who died on Monday.

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John Berger (1926–2017)

We mourn the recent passing of John Berger, a long-time and much valued contributor to Harper’s Magazine.

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Charles Bowden (1945–2014)

We at Harper’s Magazine are grieved to learn of the sudden passing of long-time contributor Charles Bowden. His articles for the magazine appeared from the 1980s through the early years of the present…

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Matthew Power (1974–2014)

Remembering a contributor and friend

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The Leaving of Madiba

Saying goodbye to Nelson Mandela, beloved fighter, visionary, and king

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Remembering David Sullivan

On the remarkable life of the subject of “The Man Who Saves You from Yourself”

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Remembering Evan S. Connell (1924–2013)

On the life-drawings of an American literary master

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Larry L. King (1929–2012)

R.I.P. Larry L. King, Harper's Magazine contributor from 1965 to 1971

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William F. Buckley Jr.

Douglas Martin, “William F. Buckley Jr., 82, Dies; Sesquipedalian Spark of Right,” the New York Times, February 28, 2008: William F. Buckley Jr., who marshaled polysyllabic exuberance, famously arched eyebrows…

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Elizabeth Hardwick, 1916–2007

Elizabeth Hardwick died Sunday in Manhattan at the age of ninety-one. Between 1959 and 1969, she contributed essays and criticism to Harper’s Magazine, for a time taking over the New…

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