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.

Harper's Magazine

LETTERS

EASY CHAIR • Blank Ballot

THE EYES OF OTHERS

DUTY-FREE

MUSEUM PIECES

ROID PAGE • From advice published on the website of the Enhanced Games, a sporting competition set to take place next year. Participating athletes will be permitted to use performance-enhancing drugs. The event’s organizers call it “the Olympics of the future.”

LOGORRHEA

ALL ABROAD

SAD COPY • From the website of the Japanese retailer Muji.

EZEKIEL MACHINE

SIMPLY

THE DEMON SLAYERS • The new age of American exorcisms

A BEJAZZED WORLD

KOREAN HEARTS • At the DMZ

MY MOTHER’S OYSTERS • Recollections of Breton summers

ON STONES • Carving in the granite capital of the world

LOVEFOOL

NEW BOOKS

MUSIC AND MYSTERY • Seamus Heaney and the end of the poetic career

SIXES AND SEVENS (AND TWELVES)

FINDINGS