was not aware paul auster looked like that when he was young. RIP for sure

pricey nuts

Honored to receive an O. Henry Prize for my story SEEING THROUGH MAPS (in Harper's Magazine last spring) 🥰😊

have never felt more secure in this belief (this is an appalling statement) lithub.com/pen-president-…

the world is obscene; read all about it Harper's Magazine
harpers.org/harpers-index/…

'We have never heard his voice. Accounts of the color of his eyes vary. A dark blue-gray seems the vague consensus.'

Joy Williams on Kafka in Harper's Magazine
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'I’ve held a bottle to my baby’s lips at sunrise, thinking, yes, he will be America’s first king, it is written in the stars. I’ve huffed his scalp.'

perfect Piepenbring piece pondering paternity in the new Harper's Magazine
harpers.org/archive/2024/0…

When those charming guys on the street who solicit donations for st jude's or whatever flag me down they always open with 'hey mister CEO!' Are other people getting this? i've seen others get 'alright SUNGLASSES' and 'here comes james bond' but not me. And I don't care for it!!

when I was in quaker elementary school this kid in the year above used to get up and deliver full synopses of SpongeBob episodes

nothing but love for the young guy in a suit on the subway this morning with 'JOB INTERVIEW 11AM' written in sharpie on his hand.... go get em tiger

for incisive coverage of the 2024 election look no further than the Harper's Magazine index (trustworthy, clever, written by a cool fun guy)

In the new Harper's Magazine, we've reprinted a harrowing series of Telegram messages sent by Muhammad Sultan, who lives in Gaza, to his sister in Norway harpers.org/archive/2024/0…

i love that some editor was like 'why can't we get the clicks NY mag gets...we need to break the internet with a big buzzy list' and this is what they came up with lol theatlantic.com/books/archive/…

going viral on here is easy, actually: you just post a picture of someone and say they look like judith butler. happens every week. i could do this but choose not to!!!

Woke with an urge to watch a Bergman film that I love but remember little of, not even the name, just a scene of Bibi Andersson playing violin, and a gnawing sadness I felt when it ended…I now realize there is no such film, never was, total false memory. but now i NEED to see it

They're filming Batman outside the Harper's office. Asked a guy how it's going. 'You know the drill,' he said. I nodded. 'How about you, what issue did you just close, April? Loved the Lerner piece. America's most interesting magazine...stranger and better than you might expect.'

'Being too good was bad. Being bad was also, of course, bad.'

Great column by Dan Piepenbring in the latest Harper's Magazine, on all manner of deathly things (funeral homes, nuns, psychoanalysis)
harpers.org/archive/2024/0…

Rare W in a gloomy world, Will Stephenson and this now ASME-nom’d piece are genuinely brilliant: harpers.org/archive/2023/0…

.Isaac Chotiner speaks to an obstetrician who just returned from the war zone in Gaza about what the Israeli bombardment has meant for maternal care. nyer.cm/jDZaP8g