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Visual Tedium

by Tom Wolfe,

From “The Painted Word,” which appeared in the April 1975 issue of Harper’s Magazine. The complete article—along with the magazine’s entire 174-year archive—is available online at harpers.org/archive. People don’t read…

The First Punch

by Matthew Karp,

How does History move? A generation ago, in the Nineties, it seemed to have forgotten how: perhaps, as Elijah mocked the prophets of Baal, History was on a journey, or…

What Goes Up

by Andrew Lipstein,

Does the rise of index funds spell catastrophe?

Dark Knights of the Soul

by Gail Godwin,

From Getting to Know Death, which will be published this month by Bloomsbury. I have been close to people who one day found themselves in the desperate place and didn’t…

Slippery Slope

by Nick Bowlin,

How private equity shapes a ski town

The Race for Second Place

by Kyle Paoletta,

The Republican primaries as farce

Ruin-Haunted

by Hari Kunzru,

In bookstores in Rome, you can buy a poster headed, in English, i have a dream. It has nothing to do with Martin Luther King Jr. or the civil-rights struggle, instead…

The Life and Death of Hollywood

by Daniel Bessner,

Film and television writers face an existential threat

Jacob’s Dream

by Frederick Kaufman,

MAGA meets the Age of Aquarius

Children for Sale

by John Washington,

When Guatemalan adoption became big business

Dressing Down

by C. Andrew Doyle,

From a letter written by C. Andrew Doyle, the ninth Episcopal bishop of the Diocese of Texas, to Will Shortz and Robyn Weintraub, constructors of New York Times crossword puzzles.…