Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Archives

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Growing Up

by Joshua Cohen, Christine Smallwood, Karen Russell, Karl Ove Knausgaard, Amie Barrodale, Suketu Mehta, Wells Tower,

Five coming-of-age stories

The Necessity of Agriculture

by Wendell Berry,

From a May 16 speech given in acceptance of the annual Louis Bromfield Society Award. Novelist and conservationist Louis Bromfield (1896–1956) was the author of over thirty works of fiction…

The sorrows of a modern Werther

by Alain De Botton,

Fischer-Dieskau and the lieder singers

by Harper’s Staff,

A poet on culture–and who reads what

by Jacques Barzun,

After hours

by Harper’s Staff,

— (V)

by Harper’s Staff,

— (I)

by Harper’s Staff,

Editor’s literary record

by Harper’s Staff,

Editor’s literary record

A hunt after devils

by Moncure Daniel Conway,

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Growing Up

The Necessity of Agriculture

The sorrows of a modern Werther

Fischer-Dieskau and the lieder singers

A poet on culture–and who reads what

After hours

— (V)

— (I)

Editor’s literary record

Editor’s literary record

A hunt after devils

March 1869

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