William Dean Howells called it his “Uneasy Chair.” Lewis H. Lapham thought it “a column always grotesquely misnamed.” Bernard DeVoto simply wanted to do something else—a books section—and tried to fob ...

William Dean Howells called it his “Uneasy Chair.” Lewis H. Lapham thought it “a column always grotesquely misnamed.” Bernard DeVoto simply wanted to do something else—a books section—and tried to fob ...

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Julian the Apostate, by Julien Nguyen © Julien Nguyen. Courtesy Matthew Marks Gallery Shia LaBeouf and I were born six days apart in June 1986. I see him as the… ...

I just wanted to tap. But in the mid-Eighties and early Nineties, in the well-to-do suburbs of New Jersey, the price of flapping, winging, and shuffling off to Buffalo was… ...

From “An Army of One’s Own,” which appeared in the February 1997 issue of Harper’s Magazine. The complete article—along with the magazine’s entire 174 ...

From Paper of Wreckage, an oral history of the New York Post by Susan Mulcahy and Frank DiGiacomo, which was published in October by Atria Books. jami bernard: There was… ...

The following New Year’s resolutions were written by then fifteen-year-old Daniel Robbins in January 2002 as an assignment for his high school typing class. Robbins, a resident of Great Falls,… ...

Is civil commitment rehabilitating sex offenders—or punishing them?