Last night, Harper's won the National Magazine Award for fiction, for Stephen King's story “Batman and Robin Have an Altercation” (September 2012).
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Wait and watch awhile (high) was featured in the May 2013 Readings section. Paul Wackers's work will be on view in June at Narwhal gallery in Toronto. Courtesy the artist and A.L.I.C.E. Gallery, Brussels
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A Bangladeshi building collapses, George W. Bush’s presidential library opens, and koala chlamydia ravages Australia
Read MoreA recent New York Times Magazine feature recalls Barbara Ehrenreich's November 2001 story, "Welcome to Cancerland"
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"Untitled (Sumner, Mississippi, Cassidy Bayou in Background)" is now on view as part of At War with the Obvious: Photographs by William Eggleston, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. Eggleston's work was featured in the May 2013 Readings section. Photograph © Eggleston Artistic Trust
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The similarities between the political response to tragedy and professional wrestling
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“Dawn 15” was on view last December at Miyako Yoshinaga Gallery in New York City. The artist produced his DAWN series while living five months a year for four years in a hut near the summit of Mount Fuji in Japan. Image courtesy the artist and Miyako Yoshinaga Gallery, New York City
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A collage series after John James Audubon’s Birds in America
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Harper’s Magazine congratulates Samuel James, winner of the 2012 Olivier Rebbot Award for his photo essay "The Water of My Land"
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A manhunt in Massachusetts, the Gitmo hunger strike grows, and the cause of earthquakes in Iran
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Does To the Wonder reveal a director lost in his own vision?
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A curious sculpture in the Kansas town that Roger Barker made his laboratory
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Daniel Brook on the lessons of four great Eastern cities that sought to imitate the West
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Where were the voices of conscience on the tenth anniversary of the Iraq War?
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Going undercover at a slaughterhouse in an age of agribusiness gag laws
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A bombing at the Boston Marathon, a gun suicide at an NRA-sponsored event, and Anne Frank’s beliebf
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A synopsis of our May 2013 cover feature
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Words dropped from recent editions of the Official Scrabble Players Dictionary
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The twenty-first-century Jungle, a U.S. official's dubious lobbying in Afghanistan, and more
Read MoreA new report from Seton Hall University exposes government surveillance of attorney–client conversations
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Imagining a renewed role for poetry in the national discourse — and a new canon
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With Kevin Van Dam at the Bassmasters Classic in Shreveport, Louisiana, February 24–25, 2012. Photograph by Misty Keasler
For more, see "The Super Bowl! (Of Fishing)," by Paul Wachter, in the April 2013 issue of Harper's Magazine.
Read MoreAn exchange on the fine points of gun safety, the kinds of gun-control laws America should pass, and the need for a moderate counterpart to the National Rifle Association
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"Repose, Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Virginia," a photograph by Charlotte Dumas, whose work was featured in the April Readings section. Dumas's Anima series, which depicts the burial horses of Arlington National Cemetery as they fall asleep at night, was on view in March at Julie Saul Gallery, in New York City. Courtesy Julie Saul Gallery, New York City
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Why establishment Democrats and Republicans fear Rand Paul
Read MoreOur thanks and congratulations to the contributors honored for their work for Harper's Magazine in 2012.
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With Kevin Van Dam at the Bassmasters Classic in Shreveport, Louisiana, February 24–25, 2012. Photograph by Misty Keasler
For more, see "The Super Bowl! (Of Fishing)," by Paul Wachter, in the April 2013 issue of Harper's Magazine.
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