Harper's Magazine

HARPER’S MAGAZINE, the oldest general interest monthly in America, explores the issues that drive our national conversation through such celebrated features as Readings, Annotation, and Findings, as well as the iconic Harper’s Index.

LETTERS

EASY CHAIR • “As If You Was a Insect”

“Every woman must be nourished by an inner reservoir of secrets . . .”

DARK KNIGHTS OF THE SOUL

FAXING POETIC • From letters written by Seamus Heaney, collected in The Letters of Seamus Heaney, which will be published in September by Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

SITUATION VROOM • From an October 2023 interview with President Biden, conducted by the special counsel Robert Hur and the deputy special counsel Marc Krickbaum, about the storage of classified documents in Biden’s garage in Wilmington, Delaware.

DOPPELGÄNGER

SANCTUARY

A SUIT WITH AN EXTRA PAIR OF PANTS

DOG GONE SHAME

JIM AND EILIS

EARTH FROM

WHAT GOES UP • Does the rise of index funds spell catastrophe?

THE GOSSAMER LADDER

MASTERS OF WAR • In search of the new world order in Munich

THE PROPHET WHO FAILED • After the apocalypse that wasn’t

THE PLEASURE OF A WORKING LIFE

NEW BOOKS

THE SCAVENGER OF HISTORY • On Eliot Weinberger

MATCHED SETS

FINDINGS