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WEBHarper’s Magazine, the oldest general-interest monthly in America, explores the issues that drive our national conversation, through long-form narrative journalism and essays, and such celebrated features as the iconic Harper’s Index.
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WEBAbout Harper’s Magazine. Harper’s Magazine, the oldest general-interest monthly in America, explores the issues that drive our national conversation, through long-form narrative journalism and essays, and such celebrated features as the iconic Harper’s Index.With its emphasis on fine writing and original thought Harper’s provides readers with a unique perspective on politics, society ...
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WEBThe Sixties. $14.95. Culled from 174 years of excellent writing, these themed anthologies include America’s most iconic authors. George Plimpton, Walker Percy, Joe McGinniss, David Halberstam, Richard Hofstadter, C. Vann Woodward, Priscilla Johnson McMillan, Sara Davidson, Louis Lomax and many more. Recollections of the Decade from Harper's ...
Everyday Use, by Alice Walker - Harper's Magazine
WEBby Alice Walker. 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 ...
Who Goes Nazi?, by Dorothy Thompson - Harper's Magazine
WEBI t is an interesting and somewhat macabre parlor game to play at a large gathering of one’s acquaintances: to speculate who in a showdown would go Nazi. By now, I think I know. I have gone through the experience many times—in Germany, in Austria, and in France. I have come to know the types: the born Nazis, the Nazis whom democracy itself has created, the certain-to-be fellow-travelers.
Wordsworth - London, 1802 , by Scott Horton - Harper's Magazine
WEBFeb 14, 2010 · Pure as the naked heavens, majestic, free, So didst thou travel on life’s common way, In cheerful godliness; and yet thy heart. The lowliest duties on herself did lay. — William Wordsworth, London, 1802 first published in Poems, in Two Volumes (1807) This poem might be one of the first manifestations of the conservative Wordsworth.
What Is Literature?, by Arthur Krystal - Harper's Magazine
WEBAdjust. In defense of the canon. by Arthur Krystal. T here’s a new definition of literature in town. It has been slouching toward us for some time now but may have arrived officially in 2009, with the publication of Greil Marcus and Werner Sollors’s A New Literary History of America. Alongside essays on Twain, Fitzgerald, Frost, and Henry ...
Harper’s Magazine September 2024
WEBThe print edition of Harper’s September 2024 issue: Jasper Craven on the dubious rise of the private-security industry, Tanya Gold’s Auschwitz vacation, Sheila Heti on the origins of A Course in Miracles, What killed the college degree?, fiction by Diane Williams and Lauren Elkin, Geoff Dyer on Tom Wolfe, and more.
Are Humans Good or Evil?, by Clancy Martin, Alan Strudler
WEBOct 9, 2014 · Philosophers Clancy Martin and Alan Strudler debate whether humans are, as Martin argues, inherently good. “Clancy Martin sees people as ‘mostly good,’” Strudler counters. “His most persuasive reason seems quantitative: people much more often act rightly than wrongly…The idea that people are good because they do mostly good things ...
How Walter Scott Started the American Civil War - Harper's …
WEBJul 29, 2007 · Walter Scott, the wrecker of culture—the man who substitutes mushy illusion for sober reason. Walter Scott, the man who left a whole generation of Southerners thinking about the idyllic life and plantation agriculture, with its natural order of aristocracy and slavery. Walter Scott, the enemy of modernity, of technology and democracy.