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.

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 ...

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 ...

Remembering Edwin Dobb We at Harper’s Magazine are deeply saddened by the untimely death of our former contributing editor Edwin Dobb. He wrote many essays for the magazine, including “ Pennies from ...

[Easy Chair] The Spirit of the Age This July will be the two-hundred-fiftieth birthday of the Declaration of Independence, but for me, the far more notable occasion is the fiftieth anniversary of the ...

From a New York Times report, published January 14, 2015, on the outcome of the Powerball lottery. The world’s biggest lottery jackpot of $1.5 billion will be a three-way split of $528 million each.

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Whereas child bed wetters in sixteenth-century England had been directed for their malady to consume the testicles of a hedgehog or the windpipe of a cock, Enlightenment science, which rejected ...

We will never know how many died during the Butlerian Jihad. Was it millions? Billions? Trillions, perhaps? It was a fantastic rage, a great revolt that spread like wildfire, consuming everything in ...

I first read the Book of Revelation in a green pocket-size King James New Testament published by the motel missionaries Gideons International. I was in seventh grade. I remember reading the tiny Bible ...

The moment I lost my fertility I started searching for a baby. At age thirty-one, after almost two decades of chronic pain caused by endometriosis and its little-studied ravages, I had my uterus, my ...