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From “Standards,” which appeared in the November 1991 issue of Harper’s Magazine. The complete article—along with the magazine’s entire 174-year archive—is available online at harpers.org/archive. The more I think about…

The Ghosts in the Machine

by Liz Pelly,

Spotify’s plot against musicians

Stages of Grief

by William Deresiewicz,

What the pandemic has done to the arts

The Well-Tempered Synthesizer

by Will Stephenson,

Wendy Carlos’s music of the spheres

Singer Songwriter

by Dana Schutz,

A portable treehouse for Roky Erickson

Art by Angela Dufresne,

The blind man and the elephant

by David Samuels,

Stevie Wonder, the Rolling Stones, and thousands of overweight teenagers party in the ruins of Detroit for Super Bowl XL

The avant-garde at the airport

by Laurie Anderson,

In defense of the sellout

by Chuck Eddy,

Never share the bill with a chimp

by Don Asher,

And other thoughts on the musician's trade

Is anybody listening?

by Harold C. Schonberg,