deputy editor @harpers, [email protected]
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I wrote about Charles Portis, Arkansas, and quitting my job for the new @Harpers
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I wrote about Cormac McCarthy (including the new biography) for @Harpers harpers.org/archive/2026/11/…
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For @Harpers, I gaze into the fires of our collective chatbot madness, and the varieties of visionary encounter now afoot: spirit communion via LLM... the heralding of slop and its generation as mediumship, channeling... the stuff of revelation itself harpers.org/archive/2026/11/…
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In May I went to Vienna to listen to some mostly bewildering music and talk to people who were protesting Israel’s participation in the world’s most-watched pop music event, which turned 70 this year. In @Harpers harpers.org/archive/2026/11/…
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“In conversation with a bot, a man becomes convinced he can fly. A woman hears from her dead brother. Even after users log off, the material world is suffused with spirit.”
Sam Kestenbaum (@skestenbaum) reports on spiritual encounters with LLMs.
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A really amazing and painful essay harpers.org/archive/2026/07/…
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I’m reminded of Finn Brunton’s piece in the last @Harpers, about how a prediction market can be used as a tool to crowdsource assassinations.
🚨 NEW POLYMARKET: Hasan Piker arrested in 2026?
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The funnest thing you will read all day, and a prose experiment unlike any I've seen. Totally delightful; don't miss it.
"Man Called Fran" by John Jeremiah Sullivan
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Some news: I’ve decided to leave my job to go write! I love Harper’s, and I’m so grateful to all the writers I’ve edited over five happy years. But I’m psyched to be on the other side of things. Editors, I would love to write for you (find me at [email protected]). More TK!
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My essay about the politics of Catholicism is on the cover of the August issue of @Harpers. It's an attempt, by what I hope are judiciously chosen incision points, to articulate What Exactly Is Going On. Link below!
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“An adventure letting go of all your fond memories. Let them go. Replace them with nothing but the fond memory of letting them go, and then let that one go.”
From a new story by Padgett Powell.
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fewer americans are paying for open casket funerals. what does this bode for the craft of necrotic beautification known as "restorative art"? for the new issue of @Harpers, i met with morticians to trace the history, and future, of their dying art. harpers.org/archive/2026/08/…
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In our July issue: Christopher Hooks on America250, William T. Vollmann on a free people’s government, Ann Manov on civic centers, Meghan O’Gieblyn on willpower, Clare Bucknell on Vermeer, Rosanna Warren on John Berryman, and a story by Padgett Powell.
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Wyatt Williams, whose essay “Hard Rain” appeared in our June issue, spoke with Will Stephenson about weather modification, conspiracy culture, and the theology of meteorology.
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Pretty thrilled about this, i have to say…
have you guys read this *****National Magazine Award-winning******* article ?harpers.org/archive/2025/11/…
In the new @harpers: @wyatt_williams on cloud seeding, anti-weather modification militias, John von Neumann, and the Weather Channel
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I spent two weeks at a Mars simulator for @Harpers 🤍It's a piece about brave utopian impulses, and the important (and sad) ways in which they can't quite get us to utopia.
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Sam Kriss, who wrote about the next generation of AI startups in our March issue, spoke with Will Stephenson about AI’s false starts, doomsday scenarios, and eccentric proponents.
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We’re excited to announce that the American Society of Magazine Editors has recognized Daniel Kolitz’s (@danielkolitz) “The Goon Squad” and John Jeremiah Sullivan’s “Twain Dreams” as finalists for the National Magazine Awards.
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“Until we build an all-powerful but distant God, the agency problem remains. AIs are not capable of directing themselves; most people aren’t either.”
Sam Kriss reports from San Francisco on the next generation of AI technologists.
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Rosa Lyster, who wrote about the Sycamore Gap Tree in our January issue, spoke with Will Stephenson (@willstep_ ) about arboreal literature, trial reportage, forensic botany and “a specifically English kind of sentimental meltdown.”
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