From public statements made by Andrew Cuomo since 2000. I am a Muslim I am a Catholic I am sort of the Antichrist I am black I am gay I ...

We conventionally use the period to punctuate a finished thought. But Rosmarie Waldrop, one of the most innovative poets in English, deploys the period as a rest, often musical, in… Helen Ouyang on ...

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Discussed in this essay: Hubris: The American Origins of Russia’s War Against Ukraine, by Jonathan Haslam. Harvard University Press. 368 pages. $29.95. The Folly of Realism: How the West Deceived ...

When Roxy Music was recording “Street Life” for the 1973 album Stranded, they hung a mic out the window of AIR Studios above Oxford Street, but they didn’t like the results and they ended up mixing in ...

William Deresiewicz is the author of The Death of the Artist. His most recent article for Harper’s Magazine, “Ready for Prime Time,” appeared in the November 2016 issue.

If it weren’t for the black death, the fourteenth-century merchant Francesco di Marco Datini might have left no trace in history. A workaholic Tuscan with offices from Bruges to Barcelona, he spent ...

“I was not elected to do small things,” President Donald Trump said upon announcing his new Middle East peace plan at the end of January. Trump was not elected to do big things, either. He was not ...

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The Saddest Words: William Faulkner’s Civil War, by Michael Gorra. Liveright. 448 pages. $29.95. William Faulkner’s short story “Dry September” is about a lynching in Mississippi. But we never see the ...

A few years ago, I read a news article about a graduate student in music at Northwestern, Timothy McNair, who refused to perform a musical adaptation of Walt Whitman’s poems in celebration of ...