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T. C. Boyle’s “My Pain Is Worse Than Your Pain” (2010)

A classic short story about the desperate acts and philosophical consolations of a middle-aged man who has become romantically obsessed with one of his neighbors.

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Six Questions

My Pain Is Worse Than Your Pain— The Film Adaptation

Filmmaker Adam Hall on capturing the dark magic of a T. C. Boyle short story

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Weekly Review

Weekly Review

Papal preparations, Polish diacritics, and Norwegian wood critics

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Perspective

On the Great Wall Game

Behind the scenes of recent scandals, Chinese government factions vie for influence

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Conversation

Portrait Inside My Head and To Show and To Tell

Phillip Lopate on eclectic curiosities and the old-school essayists

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Six Questions

This Is Running for Your Life: Essays

Michelle Orange on the art of the personal essay, navigating cultural overload, and the distance that separates two human heads

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Weekly Review

Weekly Review

Meteoric tidings, a paraplegic piglet's wheelchair, and Chubby Checker's Chubby Checker check

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Personal and Otherwise

The Master’s Hold

On the attractions and sway of a master

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Art

St. Valentine’s Day, 1879 — Hawking in Central Park

St. Valentine's Day — Hawking in Central Park. Harper's Magazine, March 1879.

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The Anti-Economist

The Economic Understatement of the Union

If the president wants the public’s support, he should be making a forceful case for spending

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Weekly Review

Weekly Review

Pope Benedict XVI retires, as does the world’s most prolific streaker

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Art

Jetty, Niger Delta

Jetty, Niger Delta. A man arrives at the end of the day to sell ice cream to children who have finished helping unload diesel fuel from the creeks. © Samuel James

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Official Business

Samuel James at the Half King in New York City

Please join photographer Samuel James and Harper’s Magazine art director Stacey D. Clarkson on Tuesday, February 12, for a discussion of James’s work.

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Weekly Review

Weekly Review

Guns, the big game, and circular fast-food logic

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Postcard

How Timbuktu Saved Its Books

Behind the rescue of Mali’s historic manuscripts

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No Comment

Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God

Alex Gibney on his documentary investigating the Roman Catholic Church’s handling of child sex-abuse cases

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Official Business

Should Critics Be Harsh?: A Panel Discussion at the New School

Please join Harper’s Magazine associate editor Christopher Beha at the New School on Monday, February 4, for a panel discussion on the role of critics.

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Mentions

Richard Ross Exhibition in New York

The photography of Richard Ross, who won a National Magazine Award for his work in Harper’s, is exhibiting at the Feldman Gallery until February 16.

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Weekly Review

Weekly Review

Inauguration week politics, Aramaic vowel preservation, and Canadian foreskin awareness

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Art

Aria City, Kabul

Aria City, Kabul. The Aria City project covers 350 blocks, and includes businesses, residences, and social services.

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Six Questions

Three Poets: “The Halls of Aspartame”

Timothy Donnelly on writing challenging verse, the cultural faith bred by 30 Rock, and the poet’s need to reach for the eternities

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Ars Philosopha

Can We Truly Love Our Enemies?

Philosopher Jerome Neu argues that our emotional responses can be trained

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Perspective

On the Supreme Power of Money in Afghanistan

What Afghanistan’s political economy tells us about its future

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Weekly Review

Weekly Review

West African extremists, Obama's gun challenge, and tragic Belgian twins

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Postcard

Not Everyone Can Be a 49er

How Arena Football League players fare in the NFL

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