In 1973, when Barry Singer was a fifteen-year-old student at New York’s Yeshiva University High School for Boys, the vice principal, Rabbi George Finkelstein, stopped him in a stairwell. Claiming he ...

Consider Hansel and Gretel, sent away because there was not enough to eat. In times of scarcity, when another mouth to feed ...

Of the two hundred or so young conservative environmentalists gathered at Tennessee’s Montgomery Bell State Park for the ...

But these assessments reveal little about the true state of the conflict and whether Ukraine’s current trajectory—in ...

You’d be the world’s worst journalist.” She is, of course, correct. An interview is not an ideal forum for fiction. But what ...

The fervor around Onosato, perhaps not incidentally, has coincided with the remarkable electoral success of Japan’s far right ...

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 ...

Drug Cartels Do Not Exist: Narcotrafficking in U.S. and Mexican Culture, by Oswaldo Zavala, translated by William Savinar. Vanderbilt University Press. 206 pages. $34.95. The Dope: The Real History of ...

The moment I lost my fertility I started searching for a baby. At age thirty-one, after almost two decades of chronic pain caused by endometriosis and its little-studied ravages, I had my uterus, my ...

Last year, Hari Kunzru took a walk around London. Or not quite a walk but a dérive, a French term appropriated by the Situationist International political group that is often translated to mean ...

I met Richard E. Maltby Jr. while working as a Harper’s intern in the spring of 2022. An Englishman in New York, my colleagues were bemused by my lunchtime lucky dip: selecting a cryptic crossword at ...

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 ...