Every Harper’s ever published
The relaunched Harper’s site offers subscribers full access to every issue of the magazine published in its 157-year history. Looks like I do have that 17 bucks, after all.
The relaunched Harper’s site offers subscribers full access to every issue of the magazine published in its 157-year history. Looks like I do have that 17 bucks, after all.
Moroccan author Driss Chraibi — “the first writer I read as a child who created Moroccan characters that were believable,” Laila Lalami tells the IHT — has died at 80.
Let us all pause and offer a moment of silence to Lauren, who parted with the new issue of Dirtypop so that I could bring you these excerpts from a fascinating 5-page interview with Junot Díaz. On the logistics of balancing writing with teaching (at MIT), he tells interviewer Dulce Mateo: I can barely write while I’m teaching but I . . .
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