Harper's Magazine

The Anchorage, Alaska, fire department asked local residents not to explode frozen turkeys in boiling grease; a wild turkey smashed through the window of a Montana home and roosted on the homeowner's bar; and, at a Thanksgiving dinner in Memphis, Tennessee, a grandmother stabbed both her daughter and her grandson in their left hands.

At the UnitedHealthcare headquarters in Minnetonka, Minnesota, a flag emblazoned with the company's logo flew at half-mast, and a shooter lookalike contest was held in New York City's Washington Square Park.

A company that made robots for children with autism announced that they had run out of money and that parents should inform their kids that the robotic friends would soon die.

W ho can deny that the letter—pen, paper, envelope, stamp—is dead, incontrovertibly, relentlessly, unforgivably, unmistakably dead? Dead as a doornail.

Is civil commitment rehabilitating sex offenders—or punishing them?

Spotify's plot against musicians by Liz Pelly I first heard about ghost artists in the summer of 2017.

Dino Buzzati's accidental realism by Christopher Tayler Discussed in this essay:

H ow to explain to her daughter. Back when she was in college, she had taken a literary seminar for which she'd had to read Kafka's “Letter

Searching for home in the city of the sun I n Baalbek, Lebanon, across from the Roman ruins the city is known for, lies an old hotel called the Palmyra, its façade mantled in dark climbing vines.

In Texas, a school district removed the Bible from classrooms under a new law banning sexually explicit or vulgar books; and Texas Governor Greg Abbott spent $100,000 on a billboard ad campaign written in Spanish that warned migrants that their daughters would be raped en route to the United States.