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Everyday Use, by Alice Walker - Harper's Magazine
I will wait for her in the yard that Maggie and I made so clean and wavy yesterday afternoon. A yard like this is more comfortable than most people know. It is not just a yard. It is like an extended living room. When the hard clay is swept clean as a floor and the fine sand around the edges lined with tiny, irregular grooves, anyone can …
Lewis H. Lapham (1935–2024), by Harper’s Magazine
We at Harper’s Magazine mourn the loss of our editor emeritus, Lewis H. Lapham (1935–2024), who died on July 23 in Rome. A dear friend and colleague for over half a century, Lapham ran the magazine for nearly three decades, serving as editor from 1976 to 1981 and from 1983 to 2006, and regularly contributed columns and essays that were compared to the work of Michel de Montaigne, Mark ...
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Harper’s Magazine January 2025
The print edition of Harper’s January 2025 issue: Liz Pelly on Spotify’s plot against musicians, Jordan Michael Smith on civil commitment, Youmna Melhem Chamieh on her family’s hotel in Lebanon, Cynthia Ozick on the epistolary life, a story from Sigrid Nunez, Christopher Tayler on Dino Buzzati, and more.
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Will Trump Become a Dictator?, by John R. MacArthur - Harper's …
Feb 23, 2024 · There is a fashionable fear spreading among American intellectuals who want to appear devoted to democracy – especially after Donald Trump’s victories in the Iowa and New Hampshire primaries.
The Paranoid Style in American Politics - Harper's Magazine
In his recent book, How to Win an Election, Stephen C. Shadegg cites a statement attributed to Mao Tse-tung: “Give me just two or three men in a village and I will take the village.”Shadegg comments: “ In the Goldwater campaigns of 1952 and 1958 and in all other campaigns where I have served as consultant I have followed the advice of Mao Tse-tung.” “I …
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Nonfiction and Fiction Submission Guidelines Writers wishing to submit nonfiction to Harper’s Magazine are invited to send queries to the address below, accompanied by a self-addressed, stamped envelope. The magazine will neither consider nor return unsolicited nonfiction manuscripts. Harper’s will consider unsolicited fiction. Unsolicited poetry will …
In Memoriam: Lewis H. Lapham (1935–2024), by Harper’s Magazine
We at Harper’s Magazine mourn the loss of our editor emeritus, Lewis H. Lapham (1935–2024), who died on July 23 in Rome. A dear friend and colleague for more than half a century, Lapham ran the magazine for nearly three decades, serving as editor from 1976 to 1981 and again from 1983 to 2006, while regularly contributing columns and essays that were compared to …