Spotify’s plot against musicians. In reality, Spotify was subject to the outsized influence of the major-label oligopoly of Sony, Universal, and Warner, which together owned a 17 percent …

The print edition of Harper’s January 2025 issue: Liz Pelly on Spotify’s plot against musicians, Jordan Michael Smith on civil commitment, Youmna Melhem Chamieh on her family’s hotel in …

We at Harper’s Magazine mourn the loss of our editor emeritus, Lewis H. Lapham (1935–2024), who died on July 23 in Rome. A dear friend and colleague for more than half a century, …

Jan 22, 2025 · The print edition of Harper’s February 2025 issue: Barrett Swanson on sobriety and transcendence at Bonnaroo; Caitlín Doherty on the last days of Davos; Justin Nobel …

Like many, I had assumed that her name, Elizabeth Clare Prophet, was an alias or affectation. Given what I knew of her—of the strange books she wrote, of the strange church she led—it …

The fractious run-up to the town’s secession is not noted in church records, nor is any subsequent argument. Every decision—the size and location of the meetinghouse, the arrangement of its …

From Ignorance and Bliss: On Wanting Not to Know, which will be published in December by Farrar, Straus and Giroux.. Among the recent discoveries of neuroscience is that radical self …

In 2012, at the age of thirty-two, the writer Alena Smith went West to Hollywood, like many before her. She arrived to a small apartment in Silver Lake, one block from the Vista Theatre—a …

Like most of my generation, I was brought up on the saying “Satan finds some mischief still for idle hands to do.” Being a highly virtuous child, I believed all that I was told and acquired a …

Art Internships. Harper’s Magazine is accepting applications from college students and graduates for its art internship program. Art interns work on a part-time, unpaid basis for three to five …