Discussed in this essay: Indigenous Continent: The Epic Contest for North America, by Pekka Hämäläinen. Liveright. 576 pages. $40. I n the 1630s, the powerful Pequot Confederacy of southern New ...

T he only thing everyone can agree on about why Donald Trump does what he does is that his reasons are not obvious. There are innumerable proposals on offer for an intellectual framework that ...

Inside the world of Louise BourgeoisW riting when I am in pain feels painful and is the opposite of what I want and am able to do. When I am in pain I find it impossible to take hold of the pen. My ...

Tens of thousands of Vietnamese refugees settled in Toronto in the Eighties, and word spread among them that worm picking was a sure way to make money, albeit a punishing one. Pickers ruin their knees ...

Gated Community From reports of people living at airports. A German former pilot spent thirteen days in Viracopos–Campinas International Airport after he was dumped by a woman he met online. An Indian ...

We often forget that the boundary between the United States and Mexico was not always where it is today. It used to be seven hundred miles farther north, following what ...

I went to the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2005 because I’d won a writing prize, and with that prize came an invitation to a luncheon and awards ceremony. Each honoree was allowed to bring ...

From Vaim, which will be published in October by Transit Books. Translated from the Norwegian by Damion Searls. S o, I said, well here we are, I said, and I ran my fingers through my beard, my graying ...

From Time Tunnel, which will be published next month by New York Review Books. Composed in 1958, this essay was discovered in a University of Maryland archive in 2020. S now-covered New England ...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I haven’t given y’all a history lesson in a while, and I want to give you a little history on homelessness. In 1910, Hitler decided to live on the streets for a while. So for ...

From “Manufacturing Depression,” which appeared in the May 2007 issue of Harper’s Magazine. The complete article—along with the magazine’s entire 175-year ...

Unloaded Magazines From a list of 891 periodicals removed in July from the U.S. Army & Air Force Exchange Service’s on-base stores. Magazine sales at military exchanges declined by 18.3 percent ...