Weekly Review
Memorials across the country marked the twenty-fifth anniversary of the September 11 attacks and the CIA released seventy-one intelligence reports showing that U.S. officials had been warned as early...
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A Perfect Victim
Photograph by Derek Schmidt The Algerian writer Kamel Daoud’s early years as a journalist were particularly notable for his coverage of the country’s civil war—the so-called black decade that began in...
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Alternative for Germany, the country’s right-wing populist party, fell short of an outright majority in Saxony-Anhalt, but may still come to power, in which case Ulrich Siegmund, a former air-freshener...
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“MISSION ACCOMPLISHED 2026,” declared the U.S. president in reference to the U.S.–Israeli war against Iran on Truth Social, echoing the banner that hung behind his predecessor George W. Bush during a...
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Meat of the Matter
Photograph by Nina Subin In August 2013, before a live studio audience in London, the Dutch vascular physiologist Mark Post unveiled the first-ever burger made from animal cells that had been...
View ArticleMagnifica: Pope Leo and The Church in the 21st Century
On September 30th, the Sheen Center for Thought & Culture, Harper’s Magazine, and Boston College’s Center for Psychological Humanities & Ethics will host a conversation between Jack Hanson...
View ArticleRobert Harris: Agrippa at the 92NY
On September 24, 2026, at 8:00 pm, the best-selling author of Conclave and Dictator joins 92NY for the launch of his gripping historical thriller about ancient Rome’s descent into dictatorship, named a...
View ArticleBoy From the North Country Paperback Release Party
Celebrate the paperback release of Boy From the North Country by Sam Sussman, which was a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award in Fiction and a USA Today bestseller. Harper’s Magazine published...
View ArticleThe Forever War and the First Amendment
On September 9–10, 2026, the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University and Columbia’s Li Center for Global Journalism will be hosting a symposium at the Lee C. Bollinger Forum to explore...
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The United States, whose gross national debt now exceeds $40 trillion, imposed 50 percent tariffs on roughly $20 billion of Canada goods; Canada announced retaliatory “dollar-for-dollar” tariffs on...
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A commercial ship in the Red Sea was struck by three Houthi ballistic missiles, killing at least six people, in the first deadly attack by the group on a vessel since the U.S. and Israel began striking...
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Transcendental Longing
Photograph courtesy Nicola Roberts In the late Sixties, the jazz pianist and harpist Alice Coltrane underwent a period of extreme physical and psychological suffering. Her husband, John Coltrane, had...
View Article2026 Awards Ceremony
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...
View ArticleSimon Paré-Poupart in conversation with Robin Nagle
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...
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The secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council stated that the Strait of Hormuz would remain closed to maritime traffic until, along with the fulfillment of other stipulations, the United...
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Italy closed its air and sea borders with Spain for one month, suspending the Schengen free-travel arrangement between the two countries after some 60,000 migrants crossed into Ceuta, a Spanish...
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Grateful Dead
Last fall, the annual convention of the National Funeral Directors Association featured a brand-new event: the Restorative Art Technical Showcase, in which a group of elite morticians competed over the...
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The U.S. energy secretary Chris Wright heralded America’s “nuclear renaissance” as he signed a cooperation agreement with the Saudi energy minister Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman that would permit Saudi...
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An Immigration and Customs Enforcement official shot and killed a civilian, the second killing of its kind since the beginning of the month and the fourth since the beginning of the year.1 2 FBI...
View ArticleThe AI Debate Bores Me
A version of this column originally ran in Le Devoir on July 6, 2026. Translated from the French by Elettra Pauletto. I must say, the big debate on artificial intelligence along with the associated...
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