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Everyday Use, by Alice Walker - Harper's Magazine
I will wait for her in the yard that Maggie and I made so clean and wavy yesterday afternoon. A yard like this is more comfortable than most people know. It is not just a yard. It is like an extended living room. When the hard clay is swept clean as a floor and the fine sand around the edges lined with tiny, irregular grooves, anyone can …
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Lewis H. Lapham (1935–2024), by Harper’s Magazine
We at Harper’s Magazine mourn the loss of our editor emeritus, Lewis H. Lapham (1935–2024), who died on July 23 in Rome. A dear friend and colleague for over half a century, Lapham ran the magazine for nearly three decades, serving as editor from 1976 to 1981 and from 1983 to 2006, and regularly contributed columns and essays that were compared to the work of Michel de Montaigne, Mark ...
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The Paranoid Style in American Politics - Harper's Magazine
In his recent book, How to Win an Election, Stephen C. Shadegg cites a statement attributed to Mao Tse-tung: “Give me just two or three men in a village and I will take the village.”Shadegg comments: “ In the Goldwater campaigns of 1952 and 1958 and in all other campaigns where I have served as consultant I have followed the advice of Mao Tse-tung.” “I …
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Harper’s Magazine January 2025
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 Lebanon, Cynthia Ozick on the epistolary life, a story from Sigrid Nunez, Christopher Tayler on Dino Buzzati, and more.
The Life and Death of Hollywood, by Daniel Bessner - Harper's …
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 single-screen Spanish Colonial Revival building that had opened in …