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Harper's Magazine

Feb 01 2021
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 US

LETTERS

EASY CHAIR • Shades of Blue

[Essay] THE LEFT BEHIND • By Rachel Kushner, from “Girl on a Motorcycle,” from the collection The Hard Crowd: Essays 2000–2020, which will be published in April by Scribner.

MY SCUMMY VALENTINE • From descriptions of the behavior of Len Kachinsky, a municipal judge in Wisconsin, which were published in the Winter 2020 issue of the Judicial Conduct Reporter. His colleague, identified as M.B., is a court manager whom Kachinsky was charged with but not convicted of stalking in July 2019. WWRD stands for “What would Reagan do?”

GRAND SLAM • From a statement put out last year by ImLive.com, an adult webcam site.

THE RIVAL • By Terry Southern, from the 1957 script “C’est Toi Alors: Scenario for Existing Props and French Cat,” in The Hipsters, a collection edited by Nile Southern, which will be published in May by ANTIBOOKCLUB.

RED WALL • By Yi Lei, from My Name Will Grow Wide Like a Tree: Selected Poems, which was published last November by Graywolf Press. Translated from the Chinese by Tracy K. Smith and Changtai Bi.

AMERICAN DREAMERS • From posts to the Missed Connections section of Craigslist, where users recount interactions with strangers in the hopes of finding them again.

A UNIFIED THEORY • From a letter by Thomas Brennan, a physics professor at Ferris State University, in response to allegations printed in the student newspaper The Torch that Brennan disrupted a faculty Zoom call and made offensive comments using a private Twitter account.

MAGA CARTA • From a video recorded in October 2020 by a shopkeeper in Liverpool, England, documenting an encounter with local police officers.

AN HONEST LIVING • By Billy Wilder, from a series of columns published in January 1927 by the German tabloid B. Z. am Mittag, about his experiences as a paid nightclub dancer. The columns are included in Billy Wilder on Assignment, a collection of the filmmaker’s writing, translated by Shelley Frisch and edited by Noah Isenberg, which will be published in April by Princeton University Press.

IMMODEST PROPOSAL • From replies to the following November 2020 Craigs list post: “My sister is having an outdoor wedding in New Canaan, Connecticut, in May. I want someone to be naked in the woods and to run through the wedding in order to ruin it.”

HEAD OVER HEELS • From a passage in a sixteenth-century book of Tudor warrants discovered last year by Sean Cunningham, the head of medieval records at the National Archives in England, and Tracy Borman, joint chief curator for Historic Royal Palaces. The text details Henry VIII’s instructions for the execution of his second wife, Anne Boleyn, and reveals the king’s elaborate premeditation, contradicting his common portrayal as a bystander to the political machinations of Thomas Cromwell.

THE DOUBLE ROLE • By Maria Stepanova, from the novel In Memory of Memory, which will be published this month by New Directions. Translated from the Russian by Sasha Dugdale.

NEW WORLD ORDERS • From a list of recent changes to the abilities of characters in Crusader Kings III, a computer strategy game released last year in which players select a medieval dynasty and guide successive generations through wars, alliances, and political intrigue.

LAST CIGARETTE • By Roberto Bolaño, from the eponymous novella in the collection Cowboy Graves, which will be published this month by Penguin Press. The text of this story was discovered in a file named VAKEROS.doc on Bolaño’s hard drive and is estimated to have been written...


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Frequency: Monthly Pages: 108 Publisher: Harper's Magazine Foundation Edition: Feb 01 2021

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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 US

LETTERS

EASY CHAIR • Shades of Blue

[Essay] THE LEFT BEHIND • By Rachel Kushner, from “Girl on a Motorcycle,” from the collection The Hard Crowd: Essays 2000–2020, which will be published in April by Scribner.

MY SCUMMY VALENTINE • From descriptions of the behavior of Len Kachinsky, a municipal judge in Wisconsin, which were published in the Winter 2020 issue of the Judicial Conduct Reporter. His colleague, identified as M.B., is a court manager whom Kachinsky was charged with but not convicted of stalking in July 2019. WWRD stands for “What would Reagan do?”

GRAND SLAM • From a statement put out last year by ImLive.com, an adult webcam site.

THE RIVAL • By Terry Southern, from the 1957 script “C’est Toi Alors: Scenario for Existing Props and French Cat,” in The Hipsters, a collection edited by Nile Southern, which will be published in May by ANTIBOOKCLUB.

RED WALL • By Yi Lei, from My Name Will Grow Wide Like a Tree: Selected Poems, which was published last November by Graywolf Press. Translated from the Chinese by Tracy K. Smith and Changtai Bi.

AMERICAN DREAMERS • From posts to the Missed Connections section of Craigslist, where users recount interactions with strangers in the hopes of finding them again.

A UNIFIED THEORY • From a letter by Thomas Brennan, a physics professor at Ferris State University, in response to allegations printed in the student newspaper The Torch that Brennan disrupted a faculty Zoom call and made offensive comments using a private Twitter account.

MAGA CARTA • From a video recorded in October 2020 by a shopkeeper in Liverpool, England, documenting an encounter with local police officers.

AN HONEST LIVING • By Billy Wilder, from a series of columns published in January 1927 by the German tabloid B. Z. am Mittag, about his experiences as a paid nightclub dancer. The columns are included in Billy Wilder on Assignment, a collection of the filmmaker’s writing, translated by Shelley Frisch and edited by Noah Isenberg, which will be published in April by Princeton University Press.

IMMODEST PROPOSAL • From replies to the following November 2020 Craigs list post: “My sister is having an outdoor wedding in New Canaan, Connecticut, in May. I want someone to be naked in the woods and to run through the wedding in order to ruin it.”

HEAD OVER HEELS • From a passage in a sixteenth-century book of Tudor warrants discovered last year by Sean Cunningham, the head of medieval records at the National Archives in England, and Tracy Borman, joint chief curator for Historic Royal Palaces. The text details Henry VIII’s instructions for the execution of his second wife, Anne Boleyn, and reveals the king’s elaborate premeditation, contradicting his common portrayal as a bystander to the political machinations of Thomas Cromwell.

THE DOUBLE ROLE • By Maria Stepanova, from the novel In Memory of Memory, which will be published this month by New Directions. Translated from the Russian by Sasha Dugdale.

NEW WORLD ORDERS • From a list of recent changes to the abilities of characters in Crusader Kings III, a computer strategy game released last year in which players select a medieval dynasty and guide successive generations through wars, alliances, and political intrigue.

LAST CIGARETTE • By Roberto Bolaño, from the eponymous novella in the collection Cowboy Graves, which will be published this month by Penguin Press. The text of this story was discovered in a file named VAKEROS.doc on Bolaño’s hard drive and is estimated to have been written...


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