Harper's Magazine

The general-interest magazine of politics, culture, literature, and the arts. Continuously published since June 1850.

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From Catharsis, Luz's memoir about the attack on Charlie Hebdo, one year ago today.

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An illustrated interpretation of “Gone, Gone Again,” by the British poet Edward Thomas. During World War I, Thomas enlisted in the British Army. He was killed in the Battle of Arras in 1917, the year the poem was published.

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A photograph by Irina Rozovsky, from the series One to Nothing. Rozovsky’s monograph Island in My Mind was published in June by Verlag Kettler.

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“Untitled #11 (2014),” by Karine Laval, from the series Heterotopia. Laval’s work appeared in the July 2014 issue of Harper’s Magazine.

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Glass Surfaces and Still Pools 28 and QQQQQQ, mixed-media drawings by Aidan Koch, whose work will be on view in September at And Now, in Dallas.

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Bottled Up in Tokio, c. 1920-50, a mixed-media collage on photograph by Felipe Jesus Consalvos, whose work was on view at the Armory Show last spring. Consalvos was born in Cuba in 1891 and worked as a cigar roller before immigrating to Miami around 1920. Artwork courtesy Fleisher/Ollman Gallery, Philadelphia.

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All Beings (detail), a drawing by Andrea Dezsö, whose work was on view last winter at Nancy Margolis Gallery. Artwork © Andrea Dezsö.

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“Relationship #86” (1996), a photograph from Siberia by Nikolay Bakharev, on view at Julie Saul Gallery, New York City. To see more of his work, see our September 2013 issue. © the artist/Courtesy Julie Saul Gallery, New York City.

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Bitter Lake, an oil painting by Olive Ayhens, whose work was on view last summer at Lori Bookstein Gallery, New York City. 

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Los Angeles International Airport (LAX), by Noah Rabinowitz, one of the twenty contributing photographers in “Travel Day,” our Folio in the July issue. Photograph © Noah Rabinowitz.

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An illustrated interpretation of a passage from Brin-Jonathan Butler’s Domino Diaries, out next month from Picador. Butler trained as a boxer in Havana, Cuba, where, in 2007, he attended a fight at Kid Chocolate, a gym named for Eligio “Kid Chocolate“ Sardiñas Montalvo, Cuba’s first world boxing champion. 

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"To lose an instrument is to lose an essential piece of one’s identity. It brings its own solitary form of grief." From "In Search of a Stolen Fiddle," by Abe Streep, from the May issue. Violin © Serge Picard/Agence VU

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"What did I know of what had truly happened to this man? I had heard him out, and, like a man in the desert dying of thirst, he’d drunk the cool water of this attention right down."

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“The Weinfeld Family” © Frédéric Brenner. Courtesy Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York City

"If we really dare to experience the foreign and the strange within, if we listen to the polyphony inside each of us, then we will get to all the madness happening there."

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True Story 8, a mixed-media painting by Tim Hussey, whose work was on view in March at LAUNCH, in Los Angeles. Courtesy the artist. This image appears in the Readings section of the October 2014 issue.

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"You get dressed in the morning and you don’t feel alone anymore."

Shiela Heti, Heidi Julavits and Leanne Shapton discuss how the clothes we wear shape our lives

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Monument, a painting by Sarah Awad, whose work was on view last year at Diane Rosenstein, in Los Angeles. Courtesy the artist and Diane Rosenstein, Los Angeles. This image appears in the Readings section of the October 2014 issue.