“Those women were amateuuuuuuurs,” Edna declared with long vowels on the way out the door. “They haven’t read the Marquis de Sade or the ‘Story of Ooooooooooooooo’!” nytimes.com/2024/08/17/sty…

My poem in the September 19 issue of The New York Review of Books: nybooks.com/articles/2024/…

“The jokes in Office Politics are still funny, and its weariness still resounds . . . within the 501(c)(3) nonprofit organizations that today produce our most important, least-read magazines.” —Dan Piepenbring harpers.org/archive/2024/0…

From this month’s Harper’s Index. harpers.org/harpers-index/…

I spoke with QAA Podcast this week about my time embedded with a group of demon-casting exorcists, and writing about it for Harper's Magazine. We discuss tent revivals, ecstatic religion, American hauntings, pandemic pastors, the cursed spirit of gluten-free and more… open.spotify.com/episode/73OS03…

‘Rodriguez was prepared for bad things and convinced the worst was soon to come. “I have two to three flashlights on me at any one time,” he said. “And I take about forty vitamins a day.”’

“I was seventeen and a half years old and was carrying my lunch in a brown paper bag, just as I had carried it to high school only a month before.” Read Cynthia Ozick’s essay on her first day of college, published in September 1985. harpers.org/archive/1985/0…

“My salvation from my depressive feelings would have to come from elsewhere. But I loved thinking about Helen and Bill.” Sheila Heti on the origins of A Course in Miracles. harpers.org/archive/2024/0…

View from my childhood window, a painting by Mason Owens, whose work was on view in July at Steven Zevitas Gallery, in Boston. harpers.org/archive/2024/09

“I have never seen such a pristine synagogue, but then it has no congregation: it feels like a theater whose actors have left.” —Tanya Gold (Tanya Gold) harpers.org/archive/2024/0…

A photograph by Jim Mangan, from his book The Crick, which was published last year by Twin Palms Publishers.

From Sheila Heti’s essay “The New Age Bible: On the origins of A Course in Miracles.” harpers.org/archive/2024/0…

“For all those involved in the publication and dissemination of ideas, freedom of expression is the foundation on which our work depends.”—Hari Kunzru (Hari Kunzru) harpers.org/archive/2024/0…

Andrew Cockburn's @harpers DNC dispatch focuses on what wasn't allowed on stage: Gaza. "I think we walk toward fundamental change on two legs," Bill Ayers told him. "One leg is established politics, and the other leg is mobilization" harpers.org/2024/09/the-of…

“Memory of the 1968 Democratic National Convention, also in Chicago, loomed large this year . . . Now as then, the nominee is a vice president in an administration exhibiting not the faintest indication of genuine remorse for its policy.” —Andrew Cockburn harpers.org/2024/09/the-of…

From the Harper's Index. harpers.org/harpers-index/