On October 26, 2026, Harper’s Magazine will gather readers, writers, journalists, donors, and friends at The Morgan Library & Museum for the second annual Harper’s Magazine Awards Ceremony. This ...

On September 8, 2026, from 6:00 to 7:30 pm, the Manhattan Solid Waste Advisory Board will host a book talk in the Ceremonial Hall of the New York Society for Ethical Culture. The event will feature ...

Bergman: There is a surgical aspect to restoration and to restorative art: suturing wounds, resetting bones. But it requires a wide variety of skills, including elements of sculpture and cosmetology.

For decades, Republicans have waged a war against higher education. The humanities, in their view, are hotbeds of left-wing indoctrination—training students to, in the words of one figurehead, “hate ...

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 ...

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 ...

Much of the conversation regarding AI to date has concerned its potential for unleashing cosmic dangers or its nebulous promises of global salvation. In practice, however, plenty of the young people ...

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 ...

In May 2019, the German Bundestag passed a resolution declaring the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement anti-Semitic. According to the text, the movement’s call to withhold economic support ...

One night in early 1941, when Harry Crews was five years old, his father nearly killed his mother with a twelve-gauge shotgun. Looking back almost four decades later, Crews didn’t find that fact ...