On the morning before Yom Kippur late this past September, I found myself standing at the western end of the White House, watching as the color guard paraded the flag of the United States (and the ...

In 1974, my mother was twenty years old, trying to make it as a theater actress in New York after dropping out of Bennington College. She was in a painting class led by the eccentric Ukrainian-Jewish ...

Christopher Hooks on “Dubya’s Texas,” the White House UFC fight, and his plans for celebrating 250 years of America ...

In 1887, L. L. Zamenhof, a Polish physician writing under the pseudonym Doktoro Esperanto, meaning “one who hopes,” published a slim volume laying out the complete grammar rules of a new universal ...

When the crow whisperer appeared at the side gate to Adam Florin and Dani Fisher’s house, in Oakland, California, she was dressed head to toe in black, wearing a hoodie, gloves, and a mask. This was a ...

Last July, 139 people were killed as a result of flooding along several rivers in central Texas. The disaster was caused, we were told, by what the experts refer to as an MCV, or mesoscale convective ...

At the American Society of Magazine Editors’ National Magazine Awards ceremony on May 19, 2026, judges presented Harper’s Magazine with the award in the category of Feature Writing for journalist ...

It is a matter of necessity or a choice freely made; a burdensome condition or a vintage-Polaroid fantasy: to live in a van. During the pandemic, the writer Kristin Dombek was one of many people who ...

At least eight people were sentenced to a minimum combined 450 years in prison for actions during an anti-ICE protest; in Europe, a major heat wave caused more than 1,000 excess deaths in France, ...

Nell Freudenberger’s fiction has spanned settings as far-ranging as Southeast Asia, the Indian subcontinent, French Polynesia, and New York City. Across these landscapes and throughout her four novels ...

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 ...

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 ...