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One of my last Harper's Magazine pieces was an honor to edit: *Lewis Hyde* on Darwin, butterflies, deep time, and our temporal relationship to climate change: harpers.org/archive/2025/0…

I wrote about Harry Crews for my favorite magazine in the world harpers.org/archive/2025/0…

For the July issue, I took my first seat in the Harper's Magazine Easy Chair, with a piece on social Darwinism and the America that produced Trump harpers.org/archive/2025/0…

Last year, I stumbled across a myth: the Lost Tribes of Israel were real, I was told, and their descendants lived in Fiji. Reporting the story took me across the Pacific, to a warlord, a prophet and the center of the universe. Now in Harper's Magazine harpers.org/archive/2025/0…

“What were we if not obsessive-­compulsive, we who so often traced our origins to a people whose very name, the Puritans, epitomized the perfectionistic delusion underlying this illness?” Andrew Kay reports on the prevalence of OCD. harpers.org/archive/2025/0…

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“In case you are unaware of it, there are many such women who actually ENJOY being very strong and seem happy to show off their prowess to an appreciative male.” Robert Crumb responds to Dan Piepenbring’s April New Books column. harpers.org/archive/2025/0…

“We are all object lessons in the brain’s ungovernable will, its impishness, its refusal to be yoked to the ends to which we have put it.” Andrew Kay reports on the Annual OCD Conference and on the condition’s possible environmental determinates. harpers.org/archive/2025/0…

“Eleven thousand years of survival versus a few decades of decline: it may not be clear how we are to reckon with spans of time so utterly out of proportion with one another.” Lewis Hyde on butterflies, climate change, and deep time. harpers.org/archive/2025/0…

"So Silicon Valley had fashioned for us a second Massachusetts Bay, a new frontier of avoidance whose effects lay all around me now, in the decay of the actual." Epic report from the OCD conference in San Francisco by Andrew Kay, in the new Harper's Magazine harpers.org/archive/2025/0…

“I went cold. At his version of the memory. My body remembered it, too, then: legs wrapped around him in my nightgown. Desperate not to be left in the dark.” From “Goggles,” a story by Leanne Shapton. harpers.org/archive/2025/0…

“Once you start something you have to finish it, once a person’s said a they have to say b, as the saying goes, and if I said no to buying it now it would be kind of humiliating” From Vaim, by Jon Fosse, which will be published by Transit Books. harpers.org/archive/2025/0…

From the July Harper’s Index. harpers.org/harpers-index/…

“Oxen have always looked up at the sky and sniffed the air before an oncoming storm” From The Sky Is Our Song: The “Phaenomena” of Aratus, a third century BC poem published by UChicagoPress. harpers.org/archive/2025/0…

realclearbooks.com Monday reads: Charlie Lee for Harper's Magazine, Derek Neal for his S*bstack, BDM for The Point Magazine, David Polansky for his S*bstack, ella fox-martens 🛸 for her S*bstack, Michael Goodwin Hilton for The Metropolitan Review, and many others.

“He placed a seedling in the parched yellow dirt, took out a bottle of Fiji Water, and sprinkled its contents over the soil. Although he was ten thousand miles from the island where he lived, this was a moment of homecoming.” —Pete McKenzie harpers.org/archive/2025/0…

“For his part, Trump, with the perverse insight with which he is blessed, was able to perceive the cruelty and ruthlessness of the America he grew up in earlier than many of his peers.” —Erik Baker harpers.org/archive/2025/0…

“Throughout Locke’s lifetime, the great argument he and others championed, that truth would emerge out of free debate, was still largely confined to the spheres of scholarship and religious toleration.” From Fara Dabhoiwala's What Is Free Speech? harpers.org/archive/2025/0…

“During a cleanup of his former office, the chief defecated in a trash can. Only after persistent urging did the chief eventually agree to clean it up days later.” harpers.org/archive/2025/0…