Whenever a friend wrote me reporting a successful shit, I wondered: Why are you telling me this? Good manners dictated I ...

But he was also aware of the violence and humiliation that an absence of discretion could invite. He maintained a certain ...

As the anti-immigrationist far right continues to surge in French polls ahead of next year’s presidential election, it seems ...

In July of last year, Donald Trump issued an executive order establishing the Make America Beautiful Again Commission, which claimed that his administration would “prioritize responsible conservation, ...

We will never know how many died during the Butlerian Jihad. Was it millions? Billions? Trillions, perhaps? It was a fantastic rage, a great revolt that spread like wildfire, consuming everything in ...

The U.S. president and the rapper Vanilla Ice sat together at a UFC fight in Miami while the vice president announced that the U.S. and Iran had not succeeded at reaching a peace deal; The Trump ...

EXT. 8TH STREET—LATE AFTERNOON (C. 1959). CAMERA IN NONSTOP MOTION is on the shoulder of a young man, late teens, intently walking west on a busy Greenwich Village thoroughfare. Under one arm, he’s ...

Let’s start with a wicked little paragraph. Guy Debord chose to kill himself the old-fashioned way; Jean-Luc Godard—“the dumbest Swiss Maoist of them all,” in the words of the amusing ...

In the September 2025 issue of Harper’s Magazine, a selection from Jeff Kisseloff’s book Rewriting Hisstory: A Fifty-Year Journey to Uncover the Truth About Alger Hiss, which was published in April by ...

Of all the niche communities birthed by the modern internet, “gooners” might be the most alien, and to many, the most repellent. Gooning, writes Daniel Kolitz in the November issue, is “a new kind of ...

In her many celebrated novels and story collections, Joy Williams tends to confront—with mordant comedy and bluntness and often a kind of ambiguously mystical quality (befitting the child of a ...

Three springs ago, I lost the better part of my mind. I remember it starting with my feet. I woke up one February morning in the South Bronx apartment I’d just moved into with my husband, and my feet ...