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Pulp Fiction

Host Violet Lucca,Guest Joe Kloc

In the stacks: on the tristate collectors of yesterday’s future

Party Fouls

by Andrew Cockburn,

Insurgents stand against the DNC

From the Audio Archive: Rachel Kushner

by Rachel Kushner, Lidija Haas, Violet Lucca,

Revisiting our 2018 interviews with Lidija Haas and Rachel Kushner

Hamed Esmaeilion

by Amir Ahmadi Arian, Christopher Beha,

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

The Gen X Novel

by Adam Kirsch, Christopher Beha,

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

Generation X

by Justin E. H. Smith, Christopher Beha,

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…

Richard E. Maltby Jr.’s Cryptics

by Richard E. Maltby Jr., Violet Lucca, Roddy Howland Jackson,

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

The Lost Child

by Benjamin Hale, Christopher Beha,

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…

Joyce Carol Oates

by Joyce Carol Oates, Christopher Beha,

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…

Scientism and COVID-19

by Jason Blakely, Christopher Beha,

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…

Genetic Responsibility in Nigeria

by Krithika Varagur, Christopher Beha,

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…

New Books

by Claire Messud, Dan Piepenbring, Chris Carroll,

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…

The Good Witches of Pennsylvania

by Rachel Yoder, Violet Lucca,

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…

The Doomsday Machine

Host Violet Lucca,Guest Jackson Lears

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

After the Titan

Host Violet Lucca,Guest Matthew Gavin Frank

An author reflects on his own experience in an amateur submersible

The DIY Submariner

by Violet Lucca, Matthew Gavin Frank,

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

The Kissinger Centennial

Host Violet Lucca,Guest Daniel Bessner

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

Nancy Lemann

Host Christopher Beha,Guest Nancy Lemann

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

The Writers’ Strike, or: the Writers Strike

Host Violet Lucca,Guest Tom Bissell

On the WGA versus the studios and streamers

Tucker Carlson and National Conservatism

Host Violet Lucca,Guest Thomas Meaney

On Trumpism after Trump

A “Native American Church” Without Native Americans

Host Violet Lucca,Guest Sierra Crane Murdoch

Authenticity, appropriation, good intentions, and profiteering

On David Foster Wallace

Host Jon Baskin, Violet Lucca,Guest Lauren Oyler

Reconsidering the man, the meme, and the writing

Panic Attack

Host Violet Lucca,Guest Michael W. Clune

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

The Crisis of Work

Host Violet Lucca,Guest Hari Kunzru, Erik Baker

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

There’s Another Ex-President Who Needs to Be Arrested!

Host Violet Lucca,Guest Lewis H. Lapham

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

Trump Arrested

Host Violet Lucca,Guest Jeff Sharlet

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

The Enduring Allure of Pilgrimage

Host Violet Lucca,Guest Lisa Wells

On the road again

Changing Views on Climate Change

Host Violet Lucca,Guest Kyle Paoletta

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

The Trouble with Israel’s Supreme Court

Host Violet Lucca,Guest Bernard Avishai

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

The Ethics of Pet Ownership

Host Violet Lucca,Guest Anne Fadiman

What is it to be happy? Dissecting the long life of a pet frog

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