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 • Moon Magic

PHANTOM THREADS • By Anna Della Subin, from a talk delivered in July at the conference Enchanting Wor(l)ds: The Works of Marina Warner, in London.

GETTING USED TO IT • By Jamie Quatro, from an essay read in June at the Sewanee School of Letters Summer Reading Series, in Tennessee.

THE AMERICAN SCHEME OF THINGS • By Henry Freedland, from “Motet for the Record,” a collage essay composed of 121 sentences selected from 121 distinct works by Lewis H. Lapham, which was published in July by Lapham’s Quarterly.

HARM’S WAY • By Mary Gaitskill, from an essay that appeared in the Summer 2025 issue of The Point.

PENILE COLONY • By C. S. Lewis, from a letter to a reader in the United States dated June 3, 1956, collected in Letters on Living the Faith, which will be published in March by HarperOne.

BOOM TIMES • By Clifton Crais, from The Killing Age: How Violence Made the Modern World, which will be published this month by the University of Chicago Press.

FILM RITES • By Olivia Laing, from The Silver Book, which will be published this month by Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

FARTHER • By Rae Armantrout, from a manuscript in progress.

WHY DOESN’T ANYONE TRUST THE MEDIA? • Anatomy of a credibility crisis

PRESS RELEASE

CHASING PHOTONS • In pursuit of a good night’s sleep

THE GOON SQUAD • Loneliness, porn’s next frontier, and the dream of endless masturbation

ONE FOUR TWO FIVE OLD SUNSET TRAIL • On the last days of Gene Hackman

AYTAÇ

SOLUTION TO THE OCTOBER PUZZLE

NEW BOOKS

Abel Ferrara’s addiction to filmmaking

FILL IN THE BLANKS

FINDINGS

HARPER’S MAGAZINE CELEBRATING 175 YEARS