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 • Near-Death Experiences

READINGS

FOREDONE AND DUSTED

ZEN THERE, DONE THAT

PSALM 3

BEYOND THE GRAVE

SONS OF GOOD FATHERS • On some killings in Kentucky

THE REENCHANTED WORLD • On finding mystery in the digital age

DISTANT MIRRORS • One hundred seventy-five years of rupture and revolution

THE MILD REVOLUTIONARY • On Henry Jarvis Raymond

TWAIN DREAMS • The enigma of Samuel Clemens

FOR THOSE WHO WOULD BE REAL • James Baldwin’s testimony in images

THE RAIL-SPLITTER

WELTERING STORM

A COMMON PURPOSE

SAY THAT WE SAW SPAIN DIE

STRANGE, BITTER SHADOW

HOMECOMING

AFTER SEPTEMBER

WISHFUL THINKING • The aspirations and failures of the United Nations

TOM ROBINSON

SOLUTION TO THE MAY PUZZLE

NEW BOOKS

WALKING ON TWO LEGS • Mathias Énard’s interrupted history

FOURSOMES

FINDINGS