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 • Expect More Bulldozings

HOPE SPRINGS PATERNAL • By Julie Buntin, from “I Was So Hopeful for You,” collected in the anthology What My Father and I Don’t Talk About, which will be published in May by Simon & Schuster.

THE FIREPOWER OF CHRIST • From messages that have been displayed by churches in the United States since 2017.

SCOTT • By Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, from F. Scott Fitzgerald Remembered, which will be published this month by Camden House.

DRUG BUST

TALKING HORSE • By Ali Smith, from Gliff, which will be published this month by Pantheon.

LOVE BOMBING

THERE ARE MORE WAYS TO SHOW DEVOTION • By Hanif Abdurraqib, from I’m Always Looking Up and You’re Jumping, which will be published next year by Penguin.

HIGH AND DRY • Sobriety and transcendence at Bonnaroo

DISCONCERTION

“America’s most interesting magazine.”

AT THE SUMMIT • The last days of Davos

THE DANGEROUS PROBLEM • The century-long struggle to prove the Collatz conjecture

A GOOD COMPANY • Searching for my publisher’s radioactive oil waste

HALF-BELIEVERS

NEW BOOKS

SUCH A SCHEMOZZLE • The beauty of John McGahern’s prose

FACETIOUS FRIENDS

FINDINGS