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Publications

Harper's

Occupied Territory

An essay on power.

Rebecca Solnit Harper's Jul 2017 10min Permalink

Best Article Arts Movies & TV

Who Owns Black Pain?

On race and risk in American culture.

Zadie Smith Harper's Jun 2017 15min Permalink

Health

Where Health Care Won't Go

A tuberculosis crisis in the rural South.

Helen Ouyang Harper's Jun 2017 30min Permalink

Best Article Crime

The Master of the Murder Castle

On H.H. Holmes “an old hand at corpse manipulation and insurance fraud,” who built a house of death in 1890s Chicago.

John Bartlow Martin Harper's Dec 1943 Permalink

Best Article

The Golden Touch

Attending the two-day-long “Crap$ 101” course, where aspiring craps players learn the Golden Touch system of betting, visualize dice tosses, and pursue the elusive “controlled throw.”

Mattathias Schwartz Harper's Dec 2008 30min Permalink

Snowden's Box

A personal account of the human network behind the leak.

Jessica Bruder, Dale Maharidge Harper's Apr 2017 35min Permalink

World Health

A Prayer’s Chance

To be mentally ill in Ghana.

Brian Goldstone Harper's Apr 2017 30min Permalink

Best Article Politics

The Paranoid Style in American Politics

“American politics has often been an arena for angry minds.”

Richard Hofstadter Harper's Nov 1964 25min Permalink

Arts

Burn After Reading

The story of The Anarchist Cookbook and why its creator, William Powell, regrets writing the book.

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A newly released documentary revealed that Powell died in 2015.

Gabriel Thompson Harper's Feb 2015 20min Permalink

Politics

The March on Everywhere

The ragged glory of female activism.

Leslie Jamison Harper's Mar 2017 40min Permalink

Family Values

Mapping the global spread of antigay ideology.

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Masha Gessen on the Longform Podcast

Masha Gessen Harper's Feb 2017 20min Permalink

Crime Science

Bounty Hunters

A war on wolves in Utah.

Jeremy Miller Harper's Dec 2016 25min Permalink

Travel

Little Things

On the outsized pleasures of the very small.

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Alice Gregory on the Longform Podcast

Alice Gregory Harper's Feb 2017 15min Permalink

Arts Science Food

Death of a Giant

Stalking bluefin tuna, the most valuable wild animal in the world.

John Seabrook Harper's Jun 1994 30min Permalink

Best Article Politics

With Child

The right to choose in Rapid City, South Dakota.

Kiera Feldman Harper's Nov 2016 25min Permalink

Best Article Politics

American Vespers: The Ebbing of the Body Politic

A longtime Harper’s contributor considers America as he dies: “When I died, I died of many things: the failing systems; the weakening of age; the exhaustion of the long war against dying. Finally, I succumbed to the lack of ethics in a California hospital, killed by filth and neglect.”

Earl Shorris Harper's Dec 2011 Permalink

Best Article

Leveling the Field: What I Learned From For-Profit Education

Undercover as a student at Phoenix University, the largest for-profit higher education company in the country and the second-largest enroller of students (behind the SUNY system), where only 12 percent of first-time students graduate and the ad budget accounts for 30 percent of overall spending.

Christopher R. Beha Harper's Oct 2011 Permalink

Best Article

Moby-Duck: Or, the synthetic wilderness of childhood

In 1992, a Chinese freighter tipped violently in a storm dumping a load of plastic floatee toys—7,200 red beavers, 7,200 green frogs, 7,200 blue turtles, and 7,200 yellow ducks—to the open sea. This is their story.

Donovan Hohn Harper's Jan 2007 1h15min Permalink

Crime Health

Innocents

In El Salvador, pregnant women have more to fear than Zika.

Rachel Nolan Harper's Oct 2016 35min Permalink

Politics

In The Hollow

The changing face of Appalachia.

Chris Offutt Harper's Oct 2016 20min Permalink

Held Back

On the public schools of Detroit.

Alexandria Neason Harper's Oct 2016 25min Permalink

Sports

Arrow Heads

Life as an Olympic-level archer.

Reeves Wiedeman Harper's Jul 2016 25min Permalink

Science

Opium, Made Easy

It’s legal to buy poppy seeds in America and it’s legal to plant them—unless you’re familiar with the simple process of turning them into opium, that is. Then having poppies in your garden is a felony.

Michael Pollan Harper's Apr 1997 1h10min Permalink

Religion Travel

My Holy Land Vacation

A bus tour through Israel with a conservative radio host and 450 of his biggest fans.

Tom Bissell Harper's Jul 2016 40min Permalink

Politics

Trump's People

The hard luck stories of Trump fans in Florida, New Hampshire, and Iowa, including that of a man who legally changed his name to Donald Trump Jr.

Paul Wood Harper's May 2016 30min Permalink

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