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 • Objectivity

HARPER’S INDEX

THE PATH TO FREEDOM • By Édouard Louis, from the introduction to A Woman’s Battles and Transformations, a book about the author’s mother, which will be published next month by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Translated from the French by Tash Aw.

GATED COMMUNITY • From reports of people living at airports.

MURDER, SHE WROTE

BOUND AND GALLEYED • By Jamie Fewery, from “Whips and Chains,” which appeared in Issue 11 of The Fence.

GAME OF LIFE • From an interview with Marcel, a chess player in New York City’s Washington Square Park, conducted by Anne Kadet and published in April on her website CAFÉ ANNE.

GOING NOWHERE, FAST • By Mansi Choksi, from The Newlyweds, which will be published next month by Atria Books.

ZERO DARK FLIRTY

RAGS TO REICHSTAG • From a speech given by the Tennessee state senator Frank Niceley in April during a debate on a bill to make camping along highways a misdemeanor.

A FREE COUNTRY • By Eugene Marten, from Pure Life, a novel, which was published in May by Strange Light.

THE CITY THAT NEVER SLEEPS • From complaints received by New York City’s 311 helpline between February 2021 and February 2022.

GAP AND ERASURE • By John Latta, from the April issue of The Brooklyn Rail.

EMPIRE BURLESQUE • What comes after the American Century?

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THE WICKED ABROAD

ARMY OF SHADOWS • Searching for the Ukrainian foreign legion

NO PAIN, NO GAIN • Pandemic bonds and the privatization of public health

THE VICTIM CLOUD • Gullibility in the golden age of scams

THREE POEMS

THE OTHER ROSALIE

NEW BOOKS

WHEN THE MONSOON WINDS TURNED • The lost worlds of Abdulrazak Gurnah

DUTCH MASTER • On Willem Frederik Hermans

TERMINOLOGY

FINDINGS