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Publications

Harper's

Arts

Found Money

On cattle auctions, reality TV and coming of age during the Great Recession.

Alice Gregory Harper's May 2014 20min Permalink

Team Spirit

Memories of life as a freshman cheerleader.

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Previously: Jeanne Marie Laskas goes behind the scenes with the Cincinnati Ben-Gal cheerleaders.

Donna Tartt Harper's Apr 1994 10min Permalink

The Pale Cast of Thought

The writer is reluctantly whisked away to to a small house in upstate New York to attend an ayhuasca ceremony with six strangers.

Thomas Leveritt Harper's Oct 2014 30min Permalink

Crime Politics

Ending College Sexual Assault

On the president’s campaign to crack down on campus rape.

Jay Caspian Kang Harper's Sep 2014 30min Permalink

Arts

Stranger in the Village

On being black in an all-white Swiss village.

James Baldwin Harper's Oct 1953 20min Permalink

The Soft-Kill Solution

The future (and past) of non-lethal weaponry deployed against civilian populations.

Ando Arike Harper's Mar 2010 30min Permalink

The Man Who Saves You from Yourself

Going undercover with David Sullivan, cult infiltrator.

Nathaniel Rich Harper's Nov 2013 30min Permalink

Science

The Devil's Bait

Exploring the riddle of Morgellons disease: sufferers feel things crawling under their skin and hardly anyone believes them.

Leslie Jamison Harper's Sep 2013 25min Permalink

Reprints

Down and Out at the Hotel Providence

Scenes from a Bowery flophouse.

Guy Lawson Harper's Dec 1999 50min Permalink

Business

The Church of Warren Buffett

At the annual meeting of Berkshire Hathaway in Omaha.

Mattathias Schwartz Harper's Jan 2010 30min Permalink

Science World

Woman Marries Snake

A love story.

Mischa Berlinski Harper's Nov 2007 35min Permalink

Politics

Home of the Whopper

Fast-food workers, the minimum wage, and a future served by robot labor.

Thomas Frank Harper's Nov 2013 15min Permalink

Religion

Like I Was Jesus

The gospel according to nine-year-olds; a missionary group that won the right to evangelize in schools and how children process their message.

Rachel Aviv Harper's Aug 2009 30min Permalink

Crime Science

Blood Spore

What a secret audio tape revealed about the murder of mycologist and magic mushroom pioneer Steven Pollock.

Hamilton Morris Harper's Jul 2013 50min Permalink

Reprints Arts Business Food

The Way of All Flesh

Undercover in an industrial slaughterhouse.

Previously: Conover discusses this story on the Longform Podcast.

Ted Conover Harper's May 2013 55min Permalink

Sex World

Sleeping Together

A visit to Tokyo’s first co-sleeping cafe, where one can pay a set fee to sleep next to a woman in 20 minute increments, though spooning, being patted on the head, and a change of pajamas are extra.

Gideon Lewis-Kraus Harper's Aug 2013 10min Permalink

Best Article

Contest of Words

High school debate and the demise of public speech.

Ben Lerner Harper's Oct 2012 20min Permalink

Politics World

The Unraveling of Bo Xilai

Tracking the circuitous fall of a Chinese political star.

Lauren Hilgers Harper's Mar 2013 30min Permalink

Crime Politics World

All Politics Is Local

Covering an election in Peru’s largest prison.

Daniel Alarcón Harper's Feb 2012 35min Permalink

Crime Media

A Court Of No Appeal

How one obscure sentence upset the New York Times.

Renata Adler Harper's Aug 2000 45min Permalink

Welcome to Free Syria

Meeting the rebel government of an embattled country.

Anand Gopal Harper's Aug 2012 20min Permalink

Raiders of the Lost R2

Digging for Return of the Jedi set remnants in the desert.

Jon Mooallem Harper's Mar 2009 30min Permalink

Best Article

Happiness Is a Worn Gun

On wearing a concealed handgun and how it changed the author’s worldview.

Dan Baum Harper's Aug 2010 30min Permalink

Mississippi Drift

An ill-fated trip down the river with a group of anarchists.

Matthew Power Harper's Mar 2008 35min Permalink

World Religion

Straight Man's Burden

A Ugandan bill that would threaten homosexuals with imprisonment, or in some cases death, has its roots in the shadowy American evangelical group known as The Family.

Jeff Sharlet Harper's Aug 2010 40min Permalink

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