Harper's Magazine

In our April issue: Daniel Brook on ICE in New Orleans, Gaby Del Valle on conservative environmentalism, Christine Smallwood on siblings, Will Self on the death of satire, Hannah Gold on Ben Lerner, a story by Caleb Crain, a portfolio by Alexey Yurenev & more. harpers.org/archive/2026/0…

"Folks, Has the Coop become a conservative institution with a set of ossified principles that’s bound by inertia? What happened to the kind of spirit that led to our boycott of Chilean products under Pinochet?" From letters published in the newsletter of the Park Slope Food Coop, a member-owned-and-operated grocery store in Brooklyn. harpers.org/archive/2026/0…

“Conservative environmentalism, Leavitt said, is rooted in four principles: continuity, beauty and aesthetics, civil society, and oikophilia, a term coined in the early Aughts by the English philosopher Roger Scruton that means ‘love of home.’” —Gaby Del Valle (@gabydvj) harpers.org/archive/2026/0…

Geoffrey G. O’Brien (@whatwillsuffice) is in @Harpers with a new poem, “Alma” to and for the flotillas— read here: harpers.org/archive/2026/0…

I love this piece by @togglecoat in @Harpers on the new Lerner novel, and on what we wish our phones could do for us

“As I followed the harrowing scenes from Minneapolis, it appeared that the feds, too, had learned something in New Orleans: that a mass-deportation campaign could never succeed so long as they were bound by the Constitution. So they dispensed with it.” — @Brookfiles harpers.org/archive/2026/0…

“In the meantime, brutal disappointment is our fate, as so much writing garlanded with praise upon publication stands revealed as shockingly feeble, even venal, confirming that our time had been darkening for decades before Donald Trump took power.” — Pankaj Mishra harpers.org/archive/2026/0…

“For the fiction writer, siblings present an especially rich challenge … Siblings threaten the specificity of the main character, raising the uncomfortable possibility that in another story he or she would be an ensemble player.” —Christine Smallwood harpers.org/archive/2026/0…

“You’re not trying to win consumption. You’re trying to buy freedom without hating the journey.” From @ABrotherAbroad's “Chubby FIRE Guide" for financial independence. harpers.org/archive/2026/0…

“Look at the size of it / Inside and outside lives / Real and unimagined, / Running from the / Desert to the gates / Before the shore.” — Geoffrey G. O’Brien harpers.org/archive/2026/0…

“I drift differently now, more conventionally passive, unintentionally marking time and place by events beyond my immediate reality, outside the ‘fixed points and vortexes,’ as Debord put it, that make up a city’s psychogeography.” — Apoorva Tadepalli (@storyshaped) harpers.org/archive/2026/0…

🚨 Hannah Gold on Ben Lerner 🚨 @Harpers @togglecoat harpers.org/archive/2026/0…

“Far from being a single unit, a family is a set of overlapping vectors, lines that cut across one another, making chaotic patterns, dense designs.” Christine Smallwood on the fiction of siblings. harpers.org/archive/2026/0…

“One of the American Conservation Coalition’s refrains, articulated across its official communications, is that liberal environmental activists have co-opted what is fundamentally a right-wing cause.” —Gaby Del Valle (@gabydvj) harpers.org/archive/2026/0…

“For months, it seemed no one here in New Orleans was sleeping well. Every now and again, the president would fixate on our city, threatening to send in troops to ‘clean it up.’ Then he’d back off.” —@Brookfiles harpers.org/archive/2026/0…

@Brookfiles @gabydvj @wself @togglecoat @egea_blog A portfolio from Alexey Yurenev explores the relationship between class relations and photography. harpers.org/archive/2026/0…

@Brookfiles @gabydvj @wself @togglecoat @egea_blog “Trying to Find the Right and True Way to Talk About Death Is Funny,” a new story from Caleb Crain. harpers.org/archive/2026/0…

In our April issue: Daniel Brook on ICE in New Orleans, Gaby Del Valle on conservative environmentalism, Christine Smallwood on siblings, Will Self on the death of satire, Hannah Gold on Ben Lerner, a story by Caleb Crain, a portfolio by Alexey Yurenev & more. harpers.org/archive/2026/0…