Podcast

Insurgents stand against the DNC

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Revisiting our 2018 interviews with Lidija Haas and Rachel Kushner

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The life of an Iranian-Canadian writer and activist in exile

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Reading Zadie Smith’s 'The Fraud' as Gen X literature

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In his September cover story for Harper’s, Justin E. H. Smith sets out to define Generation X, that nameless cohort wedged between boomers and millennials whose members, in midlife, now…

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It’s all a game to me: speaking with the master puzzle maker

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In the spring of 2001, Benjamin Hale’s six-year-old cousin went missing in the Arkansas Ozarks, prompting one of the largest search-and-rescue missions in Arkansas history. Her miraculous discovery is a…

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In “The Return,” Joyce Carol Oates’s story for the latest issue of Harper’s Magazine, a woman visits an old friend whose husband has recently died, only to discover that the…

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In his August cover story for Harper’s Magazine, Jason Blakely argues that an overreliance on scientific authority, or “scientism,” only furthered the divide between those who adhered to and those…

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An estimated one out of every four Nigerians is a silent carrier of sickle cell disease, a hemoglobin disorder that can cause serious health problems and even death. With recent…

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Christopher Carroll, the reviews editor at Harper’s, sits down with the former New Books columnist, Claire Messud, and her successor, Dan Piepenbring, to discuss the history, challenges, and pleasures of…

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Braucherei, a form of healing used in Amish and Mennonite communities, might seem like an appropriately antiquated practice for a traditional culture. But the writer Rachel Yoder returned to her…

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It’s not morning in America: on the persistent threat of nuclear winter

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An author reflects on his own experience in an amateur submersible

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Realizing the eternal dream of journeying into the briny depths—on your own terms

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All about the birthday boy—and Christopher Hitchens’s case against him

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There and back: the author of Lives of the Saints discusses her career, religion, and influences

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On the WGA versus the studios and streamers

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On Trumpism after Trump

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Authenticity, appropriation, good intentions, and profiteering

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Reconsidering the man, the meme, and the writing

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An author lucidly describes the experience—and the difficulty of understanding it as a teenager pre-internet

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It’s more complicated than “take this job and shove it”

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Lewis Lapham discusses George W. Bush, the Iraq War, and democracy

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The author of The Undertow: Scenes from a Slow Civil War explains why 45’s arrest isn’t the spectacle you think it is

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On the road again

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Fairweather friends of the planet: climate journalism’s abrupt swing from apocalypse to dreamland

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On the ongoing culture war that’s reshaping the country, and the proposed changes to its judiciary

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