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The Secret of Who She Was

3 weeks ago | harpers.org | Geoff Dyer

I went home for Christmas in 2009. My mum had been feeling unwell for a while and had taken to her bed on Christmas Eve. I was sitting downstairs in the living room, reading. My dad called down and asked if I could come upstairs. She had collapsed in the bathroom. I phoned for an ambulance and, when it arrived, spoke calmly to the paramedics—a man and a woman.
Israel, the 51st State

1 month ago | harpers.org | John MacArthur

A version of this column originally ran in Le Devoir on December 2, 2024. Translated from the French by Elettra Pauletto. Former Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau took Donald Trump seriously when Trump said he wanted to turn Canada into the 51st state.
The Passive Trickster

1 month ago | harpers.org | Lidija Haas

Discussed in this essay:Audition, by Katie Kitamura. Riverhead Books. 208 pages. $28. One third of the way into Katie Kitamura’s 2017 novel, A Separation, its narrator asks an elderly Greek woman to demonstrate a traditional funeral lamentation.
The Social Turn, by Maggie Doherty

1 month ago | harpers.org | Maggie Doherty

On the morning of February 2, 2023, I exited the subway at 57th Street to find the air growing colder. It had been a warm winter. But the first proper cold front was moving in, and I already felt underdressed. I propelled myself toward the warmth of the Midtown Hilton, where the American Psychoanalytic Association (APsA, as it’s styled) was gathering for its winter meeting. APsA has long been the institutional center of psychoanalysis in the United States.
The Social Turn, by Maggie Doherty

1 month ago | harpers.org | Maggie Doherty

On the morning of February 2, 2023, I exited the subway at 57th Street to find the air growing colder. It had been a warm winter. But the first proper cold front was moving in, and I already felt underdressed. I propelled myself toward the warmth of the Midtown Hilton, where the American Psychoanalytic Association (APsA, as it’s styled) was gathering for its winter meeting. APsA has long been the institutional center of psychoanalysis in the United States.
New World Symphonies

2 months ago | harpers.org | Matthew Sherrill

2024 Guthman Musical Instrument Competition Adolphe Sax Andrew McPherson Bosko Kante Dániel Váczi DJ Spooky Jean-François Laporte Keith Baxter Kelly Snook Laurie Anderson Leon Gruenbaum Music Musical instrument makers Musical instruments Pat Metheny Richard Guthman Robert Moog Saxophone Subhraag Singh Tóbiás Terebessy Toma Vagner Úlfur Hansson
Why Trees, by Hannah Gold

2 months ago | harpers.org | Hannah Gold

A ten-minute coffee break was called on set, time Laura used to continue her keen, proprietary staking out of those lives she might still be permitted to lead, and those which were no longer possible. She saw the assistant in her puffer coat handing steaming coffees to the crew, indicating that filming would soon begin.
Is This Real?, by Laila Lalami

2 months ago | harpers.org | Laila Lalami

From The Dream Hotel, which will be published this month by Pantheon. Morning light silvers the glass-brick windows of the Safe-X library. A sign taped to the wall above the return shelf says quiet. Sara Hussein’s footsteps are muffled by the carpeting, but its mustiness combines with the smell of old paper to tickle her nose, and she sneezes. “Bless you,” someone behind her says in a stentorian voice. Alarmed, she turns around.
Rage Against the Machine

2 months ago | harpers.org | Andrew Cockburn

Five months after Donald Trump moved into the White House in 2017, a reporter asked Vladimir Putin about the allegations that Russia had interfered in U.S. elections. After all, Trump had proclaimed that it would “be nice if we got along with Russia” during his campaign, and members of the Duma had greeted his victory with champagne toasts. But Putin quickly brushed the notion aside. There would be no point.
Range Life, by Matt Black, James Pogue

2 months ago | harpers.org | Matt Black |James Pogue

The Great Basin is a vast interior watershed cut off from the sea and spanning some two hundred thousand square miles of the American West. Settlers traveling on emigrant trails largely raced through the region’s desert playas on their way to more productive lands in California and Oregon.