Books and reading | Harper's Magazine

Sign in to access Harper’s Magazine

Close   X

Need to create a login? Want to change your email address or password? Forgot your password?

  1. Sign in to Customer Care using your account number or postal address.
  2. Select Email/Password Information.
  3. Enter your new information and click on Save My Changes.

Locked out of your account? Get help here.

Subscribers can find additional help here.

Not a subscriber? Subscribe today!

To change your password click here.

Get Access to Print and Digital for $23.99.
Subscribe for Full Access
Get Access to Print and Digital for $23.99.
Subscribe for Full Access

Books and reading

Bound and Galleyed

by ,

From “Whips and Chains,” which appeared in Issue 11 of The Fence. Back in February 2012, when I was a newly minted marketing executive at Random House U.K., I was…

Read more

A Loose Fish

by ,

From Last Letter to a Reader, an essay collection, which will be published in May by And Other Stories. I have my own way of assessing the worth of a…

Read more

The Licentiate’s Children

by , Translated by ,

From a speech published in the book El arte de la distorsión. Vásquez is the author, most recently, of the story collection Songs for the Flames. Translated from the Spanish.…

Read more

The Portrait Gallery

by ,

What the American Academy of Arts and Letters taught me about death

Read more

Math Rock

by ,

From “One, Two, Three . . . Infinity,” an essay in the anthology Ways of Hearing, which will be published this month by Princeton University Press. My father wanted his own orchestra.…

Read more

Making Meaning

by ,

Against “relevance” in art

Read more

Making Meaning

Host , Guest on October 30, 2020

You may know what you want, but you may not know what you need Read More

Read more

No Time But the Present

by ,

From Breaking Bread with the Dead, which was published last month by Penguin Press. Navigating life in the internet age is a lot like doing battlefield triage. There are days…

Read more

Paperback to the Future

by ,

From Unfinished Business: Notes of a Chronic Re-reader, a collection of essays published next month by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. The other day I was asked a question of fact…

Read more

Dangerous Minds

From titles of books and periodicals that are banned, or of which issues are banned, in Louisiana state prisons. Pinterest for BusinessSmart Moves Beyond Mutual FundsO, The Oprah MagazineThe Prada…

Read more

Like This or Die

by ,

The fate of the book review in the age of the algorithm

Read more