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Lily Scherlis “A secret in Mexico has the life of a mayfly. Such was the folk wisdom.” A never-before-published story from Charles Portis’s unfinished novel The Woman from Nowhere. harpers.org/archive/2025/0…

Portis-heads, rise up! harpers.org/archive/2025/0…

Solid opening:). nytimes.com/2025/03/29/boo…

5. "The Last Detail," Kent Russell @harpers "Russell approaches this with care, and while his scenework is often pitched for a laugh, its arm’s-length regard feels like a function of self-consciousness rather than judgment." harpers.org/archive/2025/0…

for Harper's, I wrote about Carlo Acutis, the first millenial saint harpers.org/archive/2025/0…

Late last year, Harper's Magazine sent me to the West Bank to report on the state of the nonviolent resistance movement. Nothing I had seen over more than a decade of reporting there prepared me for the levels of fear and devastation I encountered. harpers.org/archive/2025/0…

Amazing piece of journalism by Maddy Crowell that kept making me think about the line I always attributed to Pynchon but is actually (Google tells me) from Catch 22: "Just because you're paranoid, doesn't mean they aren't out to get you" harpers.org/archive/2025/0…

Warren Buffett is stepping down. Here's my old write-around, from 2010... go.bsky.app/redirect?u=htt…

In our 175th anniversary June issue: John Jeremiah Sullivan on the enigma of Mark Twain; Karl Ove Knausgaard on enchantment in the digital age; Harmony Holiday (Harmony Holiday) on James Baldwin; Jonathon Sturgeon on Kentuckiana killings; fiction from Sidik Fofana

In the new @harpers: John Jeremiah Sullivan on Mark Twain harpers.org/archive/2025/0…

Congratulations to my friend Jonathon Sturgeon for publishing the story he was born to write in the 175th anniversary issue of Harper's Magazine. harpers.org/archive/2025/0…

"How could I have been living under the illusion that I was the one in touch with nature, with human nature, when in fact I was just messing around with signs and abstractions?" Karl Ove Knausgaard for Harper's Magazine: harpers.org/archive/2025/0…

Piece of the year harpers.org/archive/2025/0…

had a great time writing about the “nefarious business” of fact checking for Literary Hub : lithub.com/lies-damn-lies…

Read Ben Metcalf on Lewis H. Lapham. laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/jaz…

One of my last Harper's Magazine pieces was an honor to edit: *Lewis Hyde* on Darwin, butterflies, deep time, and our temporal relationship to climate change: harpers.org/archive/2025/0…

I wrote about Harry Crews for my favorite magazine in the world harpers.org/archive/2025/0…

Last year, I stumbled across a myth: the Lost Tribes of Israel were real, I was told, and their descendants lived in Fiji. Reporting the story took me across the Pacific, to a warlord, a prophet and the center of the universe. Now in Harper's Magazine harpers.org/archive/2025/0…

“What were we if not obsessive-­compulsive, we who so often traced our origins to a people whose very name, the Puritans, epitomized the perfectionistic delusion underlying this illness?” Andrew Kay reports on the prevalence of OCD. harpers.org/archive/2025/0…