Harper's Magazine5d
The Seventy Percent
On minor characters and human possibility ...
Harper's Magazine5d
The Thing Itself
From Mysticism, which was published last month by New York Review Books. “Mysticism” is the word for what we modern, critical philosophers are meant to distrust in the name of enlightenment. It is all ...
Harper's Magazine5d
The Specter at the Feast
From Mourning a Breast, which was published in July by New York Review Books. Translated from the Chinese by Jennifer Feeley. Every fall, my friends and I get together to admire the lanterns of the ...
Harper's Magazine5d
Remembering Lewis H. Lapham
This month’s Letters section is devoted to remembrances of Lewis H. Lapham (1935–2024), the editor of Harper’s Magazine from 1976 to 1981 and from 1983 to 2006. I first worked for Lewis just out of ...