Illustrations by Franz Lang. My mother lost both of her legs on the way to the Barbican Art Gallery. It was her day off, and she was going there to see an exhibition called Unravel: The Power …

Spotify’s plot against musicians. In reality, Spotify was subject to the outsized influence of the major-label oligopoly of Sony, Universal, and Warner, which together owned a 17 percent …

Like many, I had assumed that her name, Elizabeth Clare Prophet, was an alias or affectation. Given what I knew of her—of the strange books she wrote, of the strange church she led—it …

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Jan 22, 2025 · The print edition of Harper’s February 2025 issue: Barrett Swanson on sobriety and transcendence at Bonnaroo; Caitlín Doherty on the last days of Davos; Justin Nobel …

The print edition of Harper’s January 2025 issue: Liz Pelly on Spotify’s plot against musicians, Jordan Michael Smith on civil commitment, Youmna Melhem Chamieh on her family’s hotel in …

Jul 4, 2008 · It was March 16, 1901. A lanky man with elegant and flowing white hair and a prominent moustache strode to the podium. He hardly needed an introduction: the audience …

In 2012, at the age of thirty-two, the writer Alena Smith went West to Hollywood, like many before her. She arrived to a small apartment in Silver Lake, one block from the Vista Theatre—a …

The table below pairs all Harper’s Magazine puzzles and solutions from 1976 to the present. The links will bring subscribers who are logged in to the website directly to the corresponding …

From Je vous pardonne tous vos péchés, a collection of French priests’ observations about the sacrament of confession. The book was published in March by Éditions de l’Opportun.