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*Harper's Magazine*
	November 2004 issue
Editor	Christopher Carroll
President	John R. MacArthur
Categories	Art, culture, literature
Frequency	Monthly
Total circulation; (2018)	104,882
First issue	June 1850; 174 years ago (as Harper's New Monthly Magazine); New York City
Company	Harper's Magazine Foundation
Country	United States
Based in	666 Broadway, New York City, New York, U.S.
Language	English
Website	harpers.org
ISSN	0017-789X

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Harper's Magazine is a monthly magazine of literature, politics, culture, finance, and the arts. Launched in New York City in June 1850, it is the oldest continuously published monthly magazine in the United States.^[a] Harper's Magazine has won 22 National Magazine Awards.^[1]

Throughout the 19th and 20th centuries, the magazine published works of prominent authors and political figures, including Herman Melville, Woodrow Wilson, and Winston Churchill. Willie Morris's resignation as editor in 1971 was considered a major event, and many other employees of the magazine resigned with him. The magazine has developed into the 21st century, adding several blogs.

History

19th century

Harper's Magazine began as Harper's New Monthly Magazine in New York City in June 1850, by publisher Harper & Brothers. The company also founded the magazines Harper's Weekly and Harper's Bazaar, and grew to become HarperCollins. The first press run of Harper's Magazine included 7,500 copies and sold out almost immediately. Six months later, the magazine's circulation had grown to 50,000.^[2]

The early issues reprinted material pirated from English authors such as Charles Dickens, William Makepeace Thackeray, and the Brontë sisters.^[3] The magazine soon was publishing the work of American artists and writers, and in time commentary by the likes of Winston Churchill and Woodrow Wilson. Portions of Herman Melville's novel Moby-Dick were first published in the October 1851 issue of Harper's under the title, "The Town-Ho's Story", named after Chapter 54 of Moby-Dick.^[4]

20th century

In 1962, Harper & Brothers merged with Row, Peterson & Company, becoming Harper & Row (now HarperCollins). In 1965, the magazine was separately incorporated, and became a division of the Minneapolis Star and Tribune Company, owned by the Cowles Media Company.

In the 1970s, Harper's Magazine published Seymour Hersh's reporting of the My Lai Massacre by United States forces in Vietnam. In 1971, editor Willie Morris resigned under pressure from owner John Cowles Jr., prompting resignations from many of the magazine's star contributors and staffers, including Norman Mailer, David Halberstam, Robert Kotlowitz, Marshall Frady, and Larry L. King:

Morris's departure jolted the literary world. Mailer, William Styron, Gay Talese, Bill Moyers, and Tom Wicker declared that they would boycott Harper's as long as the Cowles family owned it, and the four staff writers hired by Morris—Frady among them—resigned in solidarity with him.
— Scott Sherman^[5]

Robert Shnayerson, a senior editor at Time magazine, was hired to replace Morris as Harper's ninth editor, serving in that position from 1971 until 1976.^[6]^[7]

Lewis H. Lapham served as managing editor from 1976 until 1981, when the job was taken over by Michael Kinsley.^[8] Lapham returned to the position again from 1983 until 2006. On June 17, 1980, the Star Tribune announced it would cease publishing Harper's Magazine after the August 1980 issue, but on July 9, 1980, John R. MacArthur (who goes by the name Rick) and his father, Roderick, obtained pledges from the directorial boards of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the Atlantic Richfield Company, and CEO Robert Orville Anderson to amass the $1.5 million needed to establish the Harper's Magazine Foundation. It now publishes the magazine.^[9]^[10]^[11]

In 1984, Lapham and MacArthur, now publisher and president of the foundation, respectively, along with new executive editor Michael Pollan, redesigned Harper's and introduced the "Harper's Index" with statistics arranged for, "Readings", and the "Annotation" departments to complement its fiction, essays, reportage, and reviews.

21st century

Under the Lapham and MacArthur's leadership, Harper's Magazine continued publishing literary fiction by John Updike, George Saunders, and others. Politically, Harper's has been a vocal critic of U.S. domestic and foreign policies. Editor Lapham's monthly "Notebook" columns have lambasted the Clinton and the George W. Bush administrations. Beginning in 2003, the magazine concentrated on reportage the Iraq War, including long articles on the battle for Fallujah, and the cronyism of the American reconstruction of Iraq. Other reporting has covered abortion issues, cloning, and global warming.^[12]

In 2007, Harper's added the No Comment blog by attorney Scott Horton about legal controversies, Central Asian politics, and German studies. In April 2006, Harper's began publishing the Washington Babylon blog on its website,^[13] written by Washington, D.C. editor Ken Silverstein about American politics; and in 2008, Harper's added the Sentences blog by contributing editor Wyatt Mason, about literature and belles lettres. Since that time, these two blogs have ceased publication. Another website feature, featuring a rotating set of authors, is the "Weekly Review", a three-paragraph distillation of the week's political, scientific, and bizarre news. Like "Harper's Index" and "Findings" in the print edition of the magazine, "Weekly Review" items are typically arranged for ironic contrast.

As of the December 2019 issue, Julian Lucas writes the print edition's "New Books" column.

Controversies

Editor Lewis H. Lapham was criticized for his reportage of the 2004 Republican National Convention, which had yet to occur, in his essay "Tentacles of Rage: The Republican Propaganda Mill, a Brief History", published in the September 2004 issue, which implied that he had attended the convention. He apologized in a note.^[14]^[15] Lapham left two years later, after 28 years as Harper's editor-in-chief, and launched Lapham's Quarterly.

The August 2004 issue contained a photo essay by noted photojournalist Peter Turnley, who was hired to do a series of photo essays for the magazine. The eight-page spread in August 2004 showed images of death, grieving, and funerals from both sides of the war in Afghanistan. On the U.S. side, Turnley visited the funeral of an Oklahoma National Guard member, Spc. Kyle Brinlee, 21, who was killed when his vehicle ran over an improvised explosive device (IED) in Afghanistan. During his funeral, Turnley photographed the open casket as it lay in the back of the high school auditorium where the funeral was held to accommodate 1,200 mourners, and the photo was used in the photo essay. Brinlee's family subsequently sued the magazine in federal court. The case ended in 2007 when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the unauthorized publication was in "poor taste" but upheld the ruling of the Tenth Circuit that the magazine had not violated the privacy rights of the family, since the family had invited the press and, according the court, "opened up the funeral scene to the public eye".^[16]

The March 2006 issue included an article by Celia Farber, "Out of Control: AIDS and the Corruption of Medical Science", presenting Peter Duesberg's theory that HIV does not cause AIDS.^[17]^[18] It was strongly criticized by AIDS activists,^[19] scientists and physicians,^[20] the Columbia Journalism Review,^[21] and others as inaccurate and promoting a scientifically discredited theory.^[22] The Treatment Action Campaign, a South African organization working for greater popular access to HIV treatments, posted a response by eight researchers documenting more than 50 errors in the article.^[23]

In 2006, Lapham was succeeded as Harper's editor by Roger Hodge.^[24] Since that time, the magazine has had a number of shorter-termed editors in chief, several of whom were fired amid various controversies.^[24] On January 25, 2010, the firing of the magazine's editor, Roger Hodge, by publisher John R. MacArthur was met with criticism among the magazine's subscribers and staff.^[25]^[26]^[27] MacArthur initially claimed Hodge was stepping down for "personal reasons", but later disclosed that he fired Hodge.^[28]

Ellen Rosenbush served as editor from 2010 to 2015. She returned in January 2016 when MacArthur fired Christopher Cox, who had been named editor only three months prior in October 2015.^[24]^[29]

James Marcus assumed the post of editor in 2016.^[24] In March 2018, an essay by Katie Roiphe on the #MeToo movement excited controversy both online and inside Harper's. Marcus had complained about the piece, suggesting the critique of #MeToo was inappropriate in light of Harper's "longtime reputation as a gentleman's smoking club"; he attributed this disagreement as a primary cause of his firing in 2018.^[24] In April 2018, Ellen Rosenbush assumed the title of editorial director. In October 2019, the magazine announced that novelist and essayist Christopher Beha would be taking over as editor, with Rosenbush remaining as editor-at-large.^[30]

In July 2020, Harper's published an open letter called "A Letter on Justice and Open Debate" criticizing "illiberalism" and promoting a tolerance of different viewpoints. The letter received a mixed response on Twitter with some remarking that the prominent signatories had "bigger platforms and more resources than most other humans" and were unlikely to face repercussions for anything they said, and others taking umbrage at particular signatories such as J. K. Rowling, who faced recent criticism for her comments on transgender issues.^[31]^[32]

Notable contributors

Gallery

Posters by Edward Penfield
January 1894
January 1895
June 1896
December 1896
May 1897

Notes

^ While Scientific American, founded in 1845, is older, it did not become monthly until 1921.

References

^ "Awards and Honors" (PDF). Harpers.org. Archived from the original (PDF) on 29 September 2006. Retrieved 29 December 2014.
^ "History of Harper's" (PDF). Harpers.org. Archived from the original (PDF) on 18 February 2007. Retrieved 29 December 2014.
^ "Gale Encyclopedia of U.S. History: Publishing Industry". answers.com. Archived from the original on 2013-02-11. Retrieved 2013-02-13.
^ "JiffyNotes: Moby Dick: Summary: Chapters 51 – 55". Jiffynotes.com. Archived from the original on 26 December 2014. Retrieved 29 December 2014.
^ Scott, Sherman (Nov–Dec 2007). "The Unvanquished". Cjr.org. Archived from the original on 2012-05-17. Retrieved 2012-05-16.
^ "The Press: New Head at Harper's". Time. June 28, 1971. Archived from the original on March 12, 2008. Retrieved 2012-05-16.
^ "About This Issue". Harper's Magazine. September 1971. Archived from the original on 2012-02-11. Retrieved 2012-05-16.
^ Caldwell, Gail (June 22, 1982). "Urban eye: Reads". The Boston Phoenix. Retrieved 2024-09-02.
^ Facts on File 1980 Yearbook, pp.501, 582
^ Woo, Elaine (December 5, 2007). "Arco founder led firm into major civic philanthropy". Los Angeles Times. p. B6. Archived from the original on May 28, 2020. Retrieved December 7, 2007.
^ "NY Times Makes Harper's Publisher Look Ineffective". Mediaite.com. February 1, 2010. Archived from the original on 29 December 2014. Retrieved 29 December 2014.
^ An American Album: One Hundred and Fifty Years of Harper's Magazine, a 712-page illustrated anthology, with an introduction by Lewis H. Lapham and a foreword by Arthur Schlesinger Jr.
^ Harpers.org Archived April 24, 2006, at the Wayback Machine
^ Shafer, Jack. "Lewis Lapham Phones It In: Figuring out what's wrong with Harper's magazine Archived 2008-07-25 at the Wayback Machine". Slate 15 September 2004.
^ Lapham, Lewis H. "Tentacles of rage: The Republican propaganda mill, a brief history Archived 2008-07-06 at the Wayback Machine". Harper's September 2004. pp. 43–53.
^ Reporter's Committee for Freedom of the Press, Dismissal upheld in magazine's open-casket photo case Archived 2017-02-24 at the Wayback Machine, March 28, 2007.
^ Farber, Celia (March 1, 2006). "Out Of Control, AIDS and the corruption of medical science". Harper's Magazine. Vol. March 2006. Archived from the original on 2013-01-28. Retrieved 2006-03-13.
^ Miller, Lia (March 13, 2006). "An Article in Harper's Ignites a Controversy Over H.I.V." The New York Times. Archived from the original on 2009-04-24. Retrieved 2006-03-13.
^ Farber Feedback. POZ Magazine. 2006-02-27. Archived from the original on 2006-03-25. Retrieved 2006-03-13.
^ Letters from scientists and physicians criticizing Harper's for poor fact-checking of Celia Farber's article on AIDS. Accessed 21 Oct 2006. Archived August 12, 2006, at the Wayback Machine
^ Harper's Races Right over the Edge of a Cliff Archived 2016-08-19 at the Wayback Machine, by Gal Beckerman. Published in the Columbia Journalism Review on March 8, 2006. Accessed June 14, 2007.
^ Kim, Richard (March 2, 2006). Harper's Publishes AIDS Denialist. Archived from the original on 2014-10-30. Retrieved 2006-03-13.
^ Gallo, Robert; Nathan Geffen; Gregg Gonsalves; Richard Jeffreys; Daniel R. Kuritzkes; Bruce Mirken; John P. Moore; Jeffrey T. Safrit (March 4, 2006). Errors in Celia Farber's March 2006 article in Harper's Magazine (PDF). Treatment Action Campaign. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2009-06-16. Retrieved 2006-03-13.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Jaclyn Peiser, "Harper's Editor Insists He Was Fired Over Katie Roiphe Essay" Archived 2018-04-19 at the Wayback Machine, The New York Times, April 18, 2018.
^ Clifford, Stephanie (January 31, 2010). "Editorial Shake-Up as Harper's Tries to Stabilize in a Downturn". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 29 December 2014. Retrieved 29 December 2014.
^ "Harper's Publisher Backlash Grows After Firing Beloved Editor". Mediaite.com. February 3, 2010. Archived from the original on 29 December 2014. Retrieved 29 December 2014.
^ John Koblin (2010-02-02). "Listening in on the Harper's Meltdown". The New York Observer. Archived from the original on 2014-12-29. Retrieved 29 December 2014.
^ Clifford, Stephanie (January 26, 2010). "Update: Harper's Magazine Editor Hodge Fired; Didn't Quit". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 29 December 2014. Retrieved 29 December 2014.
^ Alexandra Alter (2016-02-02). "Harper's Magazine Publisher Fires Christopher Cox as Editor". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 2016-02-08. Retrieved 18 May 2016.
^ Tracy, Marc (2019-10-21). "A New Top Editor Takes the Hot Seat at Harper's Magazine". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Archived from the original on 2019-10-24. Retrieved 2019-10-24.
^ Schuessler, Jennifer; Harris, Elizabeth A. (7 July 2020). "Artists and Writers Warn of an 'Intolerant Climate.' Reaction Is Swift". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 10 March 2021. Retrieved 9 July 2020.
^ Chiu, Allyson (8 July 2020). "Letter signed by J.K. Rowling, Noam Chomsky warning of stifled free speech draws mixed reviews". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on 24 July 2020. Retrieved 9 July 2020.

External links

Official website
Official archive (subscription required)
Guide to Harper's Magazine on the Internet (from the Online Books Page)
Harper's Magazine at the Internet Archive
Harper's New Monthly Magazine digital archive at Hathi Trust
"1842 illustrations from Harper's Magazine". NYPL Digital Gallery.

[1] While Scientific American, founded in 1845, is older, it did not become monthly until 1921.

[2] "Awards and Honors" (PDF). Harpers.org. Archived from the original (PDF) on 29 September 2006. Retrieved 29 December 2014.

[3] "History of Harper's" (PDF). Harpers.org. Archived from the original (PDF) on 18 February 2007. Retrieved 29 December 2014.

[4] "Gale Encyclopedia of U.S. History: Publishing Industry". answers.com. Archived from the original on 2013-02-11. Retrieved 2013-02-13.

[5] "JiffyNotes: Moby Dick: Summary: Chapters 51 – 55". Jiffynotes.com. Archived from the original on 26 December 2014. Retrieved 29 December 2014.

[6] Scott, Sherman (Nov–Dec 2007). "The Unvanquished". Cjr.org. Archived from the original on 2012-05-17. Retrieved 2012-05-16.

[7] "The Press: New Head at Harper's". Time. June 28, 1971. Archived from the original on March 12, 2008. Retrieved 2012-05-16.

[8] "About This Issue". Harper's Magazine. September 1971. Archived from the original on 2012-02-11. Retrieved 2012-05-16.

[9] Caldwell, Gail (June 22, 1982). "Urban eye: Reads". The Boston Phoenix. Retrieved 2024-09-02.

[10] Facts on File 1980 Yearbook, pp.501, 582

[latimesObit-11] Woo, Elaine (December 5, 2007). "Arco founder led firm into major civic philanthropy". Los Angeles Times. p. B6. Archived from the original on May 28, 2020. Retrieved December 7, 2007.

[12] "NY Times Makes Harper's Publisher Look Ineffective". Mediaite.com. February 1, 2010. Archived from the original on 29 December 2014. Retrieved 29 December 2014.

[13] An American Album: One Hundred and Fifty Years of Harper's Magazine, a 712-page illustrated anthology, with an introduction by Lewis H. Lapham and a foreword by Arthur Schlesinger Jr.

[14] Harpers.org Archived April 24, 2006, at the Wayback Machine

[15] Shafer, Jack. "Lewis Lapham Phones It In: Figuring out what's wrong with Harper's magazine Archived 2008-07-25 at the Wayback Machine". Slate 15 September 2004.

[16] Lapham, Lewis H. "Tentacles of rage: The Republican propaganda mill, a brief history Archived 2008-07-06 at the Wayback Machine". Harper's September 2004. pp. 43–53.

[17] Reporter's Committee for Freedom of the Press, Dismissal upheld in magazine's open-casket photo case Archived 2017-02-24 at the Wayback Machine, March 28, 2007.

[18] Farber, Celia (March 1, 2006). "Out Of Control, AIDS and the corruption of medical science". Harper's Magazine. Vol. March 2006. Archived from the original on 2013-01-28. Retrieved 2006-03-13.

[19] Miller, Lia (March 13, 2006). "An Article in Harper's Ignites a Controversy Over H.I.V." The New York Times. Archived from the original on 2009-04-24. Retrieved 2006-03-13.

[20] Farber Feedback. POZ Magazine. 2006-02-27. Archived from the original on 2006-03-25. Retrieved 2006-03-13.

[21] Letters from scientists and physicians criticizing Harper's for poor fact-checking of Celia Farber's article on AIDS. Accessed 21 Oct 2006. Archived August 12, 2006, at the Wayback Machine

[22] Harper's Races Right over the Edge of a Cliff Archived 2016-08-19 at the Wayback Machine, by Gal Beckerman. Published in the Columbia Journalism Review on March 8, 2006. Accessed June 14, 2007.

[23] Kim, Richard (March 2, 2006). Harper's Publishes AIDS Denialist. Archived from the original on 2014-10-30. Retrieved 2006-03-13.

[24] Gallo, Robert; Nathan Geffen; Gregg Gonsalves; Richard Jeffreys; Daniel R. Kuritzkes; Bruce Mirken; John P. Moore; Jeffrey T. Safrit (March 4, 2006). Errors in Celia Farber's March 2006 article in Harper's Magazine (PDF). Treatment Action Campaign. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2009-06-16. Retrieved 2006-03-13.

[NYT-20180418-25] Jaclyn Peiser, "Harper's Editor Insists He Was Fired Over Katie Roiphe Essay" Archived 2018-04-19 at the Wayback Machine, The New York Times, April 18, 2018.

[26] Clifford, Stephanie (January 31, 2010). "Editorial Shake-Up as Harper's Tries to Stabilize in a Downturn". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 29 December 2014. Retrieved 29 December 2014.

[27] "Harper's Publisher Backlash Grows After Firing Beloved Editor". Mediaite.com. February 3, 2010. Archived from the original on 29 December 2014. Retrieved 29 December 2014.

[28] John Koblin (2010-02-02). "Listening in on the Harper's Meltdown". The New York Observer. Archived from the original on 2014-12-29. Retrieved 29 December 2014.

[29] Clifford, Stephanie (January 26, 2010). "Update: Harper's Magazine Editor Hodge Fired; Didn't Quit". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 29 December 2014. Retrieved 29 December 2014.

[30] Alexandra Alter (2016-02-02). "Harper's Magazine Publisher Fires Christopher Cox as Editor". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 2016-02-08. Retrieved 18 May 2016.

[31] Tracy, Marc (2019-10-21). "A New Top Editor Takes the Hot Seat at Harper's Magazine". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Archived from the original on 2019-10-24. Retrieved 2019-10-24.

[32] Schuessler, Jennifer; Harris, Elizabeth A. (7 July 2020). "Artists and Writers Warn of an 'Intolerant Climate.' Reaction Is Swift". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 10 March 2021. Retrieved 9 July 2020.

[33] Chiu, Allyson (8 July 2020). "Letter signed by J.K. Rowling, Noam Chomsky warning of stifled free speech draws mixed reviews". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on 24 July 2020. Retrieved 9 July 2020.

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+'''''Harper's Magazine''''' is a monthly magazine of literature, politics, culture, finance, and the arts. Launched in [[New York City]] in June 1850, it is the oldest continuously published monthly magazine in the United States.{{efn|While ''[[Scientific American]]'', founded in 1845, is older, it did not become monthly until 1921.}} ''Harper's Magazine'' has won 22 [[National Magazine Awards]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.harpers.org/advertising/OLMediaKit/awardsandhonors.pdf|title=Awards and Honors|website=Harpers.org|access-date=29 December 2014|archive-date=29 September 2006|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060929011941/http://www.harpers.org/advertising/OLMediaKit/awardsandhonors.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref>
-In the 19th and 20th centuries the magazine published works of authors such as [[Herman Melville]], [[Woodrow Wilson]], and [[Winston Churchill]]. [[Willie Morris]]'s resignation as editor in 1971 was considered a major event, and many other employees of the magazine resigned with him. The magazine has developed into the 21st century, adding several blogs. ''Harper's'' has been the subject of several controversies.
+Throughout the 19th and 20th centuries, the magazine published works of prominent authors and political figures, including [[Herman Melville]], [[Woodrow Wilson]], and [[Winston Churchill]]. [[Willie Morris]]'s resignation as editor in 1971 was considered a major event, and many other employees of the magazine resigned with him. The magazine has developed into the 21st century, adding several blogs.
 ==History==
+===19th century===
-[[File:Fletcher, James, John, and Joseph Harper (ca. 1860).jpg|thumb|left|[[Harper & Brothers]] founders in [[New York City]] by [[Fletcher Harper|Fletcher]], [[James Harper (publisher)|James]], John and Joseph Wesley Harper (1860)]]
+[[File:Fletcher, James, John, and Joseph Harper (ca. 1860).jpg|thumb|[[Harper & Brothers]] founders in New York City by [[Fletcher Harper|Fletcher]], [[James Harper (publisher)|James]], John, and Joseph Wesley Harper (1860)]]
-[[File:Harpers Magazine 1905.jpg|175px|thumb|right|An issue of ''Harper's'' from 1905]]
+[[File:Harpers Magazine 1905.jpg|thumb|A 1905 issue of ''Harper's'']]
-''Harper's Magazine'' began as '''''Harper's New Monthly Magazine''''' in [[New York City]] in June 1850, by the [[New York City]] publisher [[Harper & Brothers]]. The company also founded the magazines ''[[Harper's Weekly]]'' and ''[[Harper's Bazaar]]'', and grew to become [[HarperCollins]] Publishing. The first press run of ''Harper's Magazine''—7,500 copies—sold out almost immediately. Circulation was some 50,000 issues six months later.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.harpers.org/advertising/OLMediaKit/History.pdf|title=History of Harper's|publisher=Harpers.org|access-date=29 December 2014}}</ref>
+''Harper's Magazine'' began as '''''Harper's New Monthly Magazine''''' in [[New York City]] in June 1850, by publisher [[Harper & Brothers]]. The company also founded the magazines ''[[Harper's Weekly]]'' and ''[[Harper's Bazaar]]'', and grew to become [[HarperCollins]]. The first press run of ''Harper's Magazine'' included 7,500 copies and sold out almost immediately. Six months later, the magazine's circulation had grown to 50,000.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.harpers.org/advertising/OLMediaKit/History.pdf|title=History of Harper's|publisher=Harpers.org|access-date=29 December 2014|archive-date=18 February 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070218093544/http://www.harpers.org/advertising/OLMediaKit/History.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref>
-The early issues reprinted material pirated from English authors such as Charles Dickens, William Makepeace Thackeray, and the Brontë sisters.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.answers.com/topic/publishing-industry |title=Gale Encyclopedia of U.S. History: Publishing Industry |publisher=answers.com |access-date=2013-02-13}}</ref> The magazine soon was publishing the work of American artists and writers, and in time commentary by the likes of [[Winston Churchill]] and [[Woodrow Wilson]].  Portions of [[Herman Melville]]'s novel ''[[Moby Dick]]'' were first published in the October 1851 issue of ''Harper's'' under the title, "The Town-Ho's Story" (titled after Chapter 54 of ''Moby Dick'').<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.jiffynotes.com/MobyDick/Chapters51-55.html|title=JiffyNotes: Moby Dick: Summary: Chapters 51 – 55|publisher=Jiffynotes.com|access-date=29 December 2014}}</ref>
+The early issues reprinted material pirated from English authors such as [[Charles Dickens]], [[William Makepeace Thackeray]], and the [[Brontë sisters]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.answers.com/topic/publishing-industry |title=Gale Encyclopedia of U.S. History: Publishing Industry |publisher=answers.com |access-date=2013-02-13 |archive-date=2013-02-11 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130211001145/http://www.answers.com/topic/publishing-industry |url-status=live }}</ref> The magazine soon was publishing the work of American artists and writers, and in time commentary by the likes of [[Winston Churchill]] and [[Woodrow Wilson]]. Portions of Herman Melville's novel ''[[Moby-Dick]]'' were first published in the October 1851 issue of ''Harper's'' under the title, "The Town-Ho's Story", named after Chapter 54 of ''Moby-Dick''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.jiffynotes.com/MobyDick/Chapters51-55.html|title=JiffyNotes: Moby Dick: Summary: Chapters 51 – 55|publisher=Jiffynotes.com|access-date=29 December 2014|archive-date=26 December 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141226173609/http://www.jiffynotes.com/MobyDick/Chapters51-55.html|url-status=dead}}</ref>
+===20th century===
 In 1962, Harper & Brothers merged with Row, Peterson & Company, becoming Harper & Row (now [[HarperCollins]]). In 1965, the magazine was separately incorporated, and became a division of the [[Star Tribune|Minneapolis Star and Tribune Company]], owned by the [[Cowles Media Company]].
-In the 1970s, ''Harper's Magazine'' published [[Seymour Hersh]]'s reporting of the [[My Lai Massacre]] by United States forces in Vietnam. In 1971 editor [[Willie Morris]] resigned under pressure from owner [[John Cowles, Jr.]], prompting resignations from many of the magazine's star contributors and staffers, including [[Norman Mailer]], [[David Halberstam]], Robert Kotlowitz, [[Marshall Frady]] and [[Larry L. King]]:
+In the 1970s, ''Harper's Magazine'' published [[Seymour Hersh]]'s reporting of the [[My Lai Massacre]] by United States forces in Vietnam. In 1971, editor [[Willie Morris]] resigned under pressure from owner [[John Cowles Jr.]], prompting resignations from many of the magazine's star contributors and staffers, including [[Norman Mailer]], [[David Halberstam]], [[Robert Kotlowitz]], [[Marshall Frady]], and [[Larry L. King]]:
+{{blockquote|text=Morris's departure jolted the literary world. Mailer, [[William Styron]], [[Gay Talese]], [[Bill Moyers]], and [[Tom Wicker]] declared that they would boycott Harper's as long as the Cowles family owned it, and the four staff writers hired by Morris—Frady among them—resigned in solidarity with him.|sign=[[Scott Sherman]]<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.cjr.org/second_read/the_unvanquished.php |first=Sherman |last=Scott |title=The Unvanquished |date=Nov–Dec 2007 |publisher=Cjr.org |access-date=2012-05-16 |archive-date=2012-05-17 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120517074705/http://www.cjr.org/second_read/the_unvanquished.php |url-status=live }}</ref>}}
+Robert Shnayerson, a senior editor at ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]'' magazine, was hired to replace Morris as ''Harper's'' ninth editor, serving in that position from 1971 until 1976.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,905255,00.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080312203503/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,905255,00.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=March 12, 2008 |title=The Press: New Head at Harper's |magazine=[[Time (magazine)|Time]] |date=June 28, 1971 |access-date=2012-05-16}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine |url=http://harpers.org/archive/1971/09/page/0006 |title=About This Issue |date=September 1971 |magazine=Harper's Magazine |access-date=2012-05-16 |archive-date=2012-02-11 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120211151246/http://www.harpers.org/archive/1971/09/page/0006 |url-status=live }}</ref>
-{{quote|text=Morris's departure jolted the literary world. Mailer, [[William Styron]], [[Gay Talese]], [[Bill Moyers]], and [[Tom Wicker]] declared that they would boycott Harper's as long as the Cowles family owned it, and the four staff writers hired by Morris—Frady among them—resigned in solidarity with him.|sign=[[Scott Sherman]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.cjr.org/second_read/the_unvanquished.php |first=Sherman |last=Scott |title=The Unvanquished |date= Nov–Dec 2007 |publisher=Cjr.org |access-date=2012-05-16}}</ref>}}
+[[Lewis H. Lapham]] served as managing editor from 1976 until 1981, when the job was taken over by [[Michael Kinsley]].<ref>{{cite news |last1=Caldwell |first1=Gail |title=Urban eye: Reads |url=https://archive.org/details/sim_boston-phoenix_1982-06-22_11_25/page/n41/mode/1up |access-date=2024-09-02 |work=The Boston Phoenix |date=June 22, 1982}}</ref> Lapham returned to the position again from 1983 until 2006. On June 17, 1980, the Star Tribune announced it would cease publishing ''Harper's Magazine'' after the August 1980 issue, but on July 9, 1980, [[John R. MacArthur]] (who goes by the name Rick) and his father, Roderick, obtained pledges from the directorial boards of the [[John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation]], the [[ARCO|Atlantic Richfield Company]], and CEO [[Robert Orville Anderson]] to amass the $1.5&nbsp;million needed to establish the Harper's Magazine Foundation. It now publishes the magazine.<ref>''Facts on File 1980 Yearbook'', pp.501, 582</ref><ref name="latimesObit">{{Cite news| last =Woo| first =Elaine| title =Arco founder led firm into major civic philanthropy| newspaper =[[Los Angeles Times]]| page =B6| date =December 5, 2007| url =http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-anderson5dec05,1,3067816.story?coll=la-news-obituaries&ctrack=3&cset=true| access-date =December 7, 2007| archive-date =May 28, 2020| archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20200528043410/https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-dec-05-me-anderson5-story.html| url-status =live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mediaite.com/print/harpers-publisher-rick-macarthur-spearheads-change-but-not-enough/|title=NY Times Makes Harper's Publisher Look Ineffective|date=February 1, 2010|publisher=Mediaite.com|access-date=29 December 2014|archive-date=29 December 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141229181426/http://www.mediaite.com/print/harpers-publisher-rick-macarthur-spearheads-change-but-not-enough/|url-status=live}}</ref>
-Robert Shnayerson, a senior editor at ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]'' magazine, was hired to replace Morris as ''Harper's'' ninth editor, serving in that position from 1971 until 1976.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,905255,00.html |title="The Press: New Head at Harper's," ''TIME'' magazine, June 28, 1971 |publisher=Time.com  |access-date=2012-05-16}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://harpers.org/archive/1971/09/page/0006 |title=''Harper's Magazine,'' "About This Issue," September 1971 |publisher=Harpers.org |access-date=2012-05-16}}</ref>
+In 1984, Lapham and MacArthur, now publisher and president of the foundation, respectively, along with new executive editor [[Michael Pollan]], redesigned ''Harper's'' and introduced the "Harper's Index" with statistics arranged for, "Readings", and the "Annotation" departments to complement its fiction, essays, reportage, and reviews.
-[[Lewis H. Lapham]] served as managing editor from 1976 until 1981; he returned to the position again from 1983 until 2006. On June 17, 1980, the Star Tribune announced it would cease publishing ''Harper's Magazine'' after the August 1980 issue. But, on July 9, 1980, [[John R. MacArthur]] (who goes by the name Rick) and his father, Roderick, obtained pledges from the directorial boards of the [[John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation]], the [[ARCO|Atlantic Richfield Company]], and CEO [[Robert Orville Anderson]] to amass the $1.5&nbsp;million needed to establish the Harper's Magazine Foundation. It now publishes the magazine.<ref>''Facts on File 1980 Yearbook,'' pp.501, 582</ref><ref name="latimesObit">{{Cite news | last =Woo| first =Elaine| title = Arco founder led firm into major civic philanthropy |newspaper = [[Los Angeles Times]] |page=B6 |date =December 5, 2007
- | url = http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-anderson5dec05,1,3067816.story?coll=la-news-obituaries&ctrack=3&cset=true }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mediaite.com/print/harpers-publisher-rick-macarthur-spearheads-change-but-not-enough/|title=NY Times Makes Harper's Publisher Look Ineffective|date=February 1, 2010|publisher=Mediaite.com|access-date=29 December 2014}}</ref>
+===21st century===
-In 1984, Lapham and MacArthur—now publisher and president of the foundation—along with new executive editor [[Michael Pollan]], redesigned ''Harper's'' and introduced the "Harper's Index" (statistics arranged for thoughtful effect), "Readings", and the "Annotation" departments to complement its fiction, essays, reportage, and reviews. As of the December 2019 issue, Julian Lucas writes the print edition's "New Books" column.
+Under the Lapham and MacArthur's leadership, ''Harper's Magazine'' continued publishing literary fiction by [[John Updike]], [[George Saunders]], and others. Politically, ''Harper's'' has been a vocal critic of U.S. domestic and foreign policies. Editor Lapham's monthly "Notebook" columns have lambasted the [[Presidency of Bill Clinton|Clinton]] and the [[Presidency of George W. Bush|George W. Bush]] administrations. Beginning in 2003, the magazine concentrated on reportage the [[Iraq War]], including long articles on the  [[Fallujah during the Iraq War|battle for Fallujah]], and the cronyism of the [[Investment in post-invasion Iraq|American reconstruction of Iraq]]. Other reporting has covered abortion issues, cloning, and global warming.<ref>''An American Album: One Hundred and Fifty Years of Harper's Magazine'', a 712-page illustrated anthology, with an introduction by Lewis H. Lapham and a foreword by [[Arthur Schlesinger Jr.]]</ref>
+In 2007, ''Harper's'' added the ''No Comment'' blog by attorney [[Scott Horton (attorney)|Scott Horton]] about legal controversies, [[Central Asia]]n politics, and [[Germany|German]] studies. In April 2006, ''Harper's'' began publishing the ''Washington Babylon'' blog on its website,<ref>[http://harpers.org/index.html Harpers.org] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060424142317/http://harpers.org/index.html |date=April 24, 2006 }}</ref> written by [[Washington, D.C.]] editor [[Ken Silverstein]] about American politics; and in 2008, ''Harper's'' added the ''Sentences'' blog by contributing editor [[Wyatt Mason]], about literature and ''[[belles lettres]]''. Since that time, these two blogs have ceased publication. Another website feature, featuring a rotating set of authors, is the "Weekly Review", a three-paragraph distillation of the week's political, scientific, and bizarre news. Like "Harper's Index" and "Findings" in the print edition of the magazine, "Weekly Review" items are typically arranged for ironic contrast.
-Under the Lapham-MacArthur leadership, ''Harper's Magazine'' continued publishing literary fiction by [[John Updike]], [[George Saunders]], and others. Politically, ''Harper's'' was an especially vocal critic of U.S. domestic and foreign policies. Editor Lapham's monthly "Notebook" columns have lambasted the Clinton and the George W. Bush administrations. Since 2003, the magazine has concentrated on reportage about U.S. war in Iraq, with long articles about the battle for [[Fallujah]], and the cronyism of the American reconstruction of Iraq. Other reporting has covered abortion issues, cloning, and global warming.<ref>''An American Album: One Hundred and Fifty Years of Harper's Magazine'', a 712-page illustrated anthology, with an introduction by Lewis H. Lapham and a foreword by [[Arthur Schlesinger Jr.]]</ref>
+As of the December 2019 issue, Julian Lucas writes the print edition's "New Books" column.
-In 2007, ''Harper's'' added the ''No Comment'' blog, by attorney [[Scott Horton (attorney)|Scott Horton]], about legal controversies, Central Asian politics, and German studies. In April 2006, ''Harper's'' began publishing the ''Washington Babylon'' blog on its website,<ref>[http://harpers.org/index.html Harpers.org] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060424142317/http://harpers.org/index.html |date=April 24, 2006 }}</ref> written by Washington Editor [[Ken Silverstein]] about American politics; and in 2008, ''Harper's'' added the ''Sentences'' blog, by contributing editor [[Wyatt Mason]], about literature and ''[[belles lettres]].''  Since that time these two blogs have ceased publication. Another website feature, composed by a rotating set of authors, is the "Weekly Review", single-sentence summaries of political, scientific, and bizarre news; like the "Harper's Index" and "Findings" in the print edition of the magazine, the "Weekly Review" items are arranged for ironic contrast.
 ==Controversies==
-Editor [[Lewis H. Lapham]] was criticized for his reportage of the [[2004 Republican National Convention]], which had yet to occur, in his essay "Tentacles of Rage: The Republican Propaganda Mill, a Brief History", published in the September 2004 issue which implied that he had attended the convention. He apologized in a note.<ref>Shafer, Jack. "[http://www.slate.com/id/2106548 Lewis Lapham Phones It In: Figuring out what's wrong with Harper's magazine]." ''Slate'' 15 September 2004.</ref><ref>Lapham, Lewis H. "[http://harpers.org/archive/2004/09/0080196 Tentacles of rage: The Republican propaganda mill, a brief history]." ''Harper's'' September 2004. pp.&nbsp;43–53.</ref> Lapham left two years later, after 28 years as ''Harper's'' editor in chief, and launched ''[[Lapham's Quarterly]]''.
+Editor [[Lewis H. Lapham]] was criticized for his reportage of the [[2004 Republican National Convention]], which had yet to occur, in his essay "Tentacles of Rage: The Republican Propaganda Mill, a Brief History", published in the September 2004 issue, which implied that he had attended the convention. He apologized in a note.<ref>Shafer, Jack. "[http://www.slate.com/id/2106548 Lewis Lapham Phones It In: Figuring out what's wrong with Harper's magazine] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080725134837/http://www.slate.com/id/2106548/ |date=2008-07-25 }}". ''Slate'' 15 September 2004.</ref><ref>Lapham, Lewis H. "[http://harpers.org/archive/2004/09/0080196 Tentacles of rage: The Republican propaganda mill, a brief history] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080706210808/http://www.harpers.org/archive/2004/09/0080196 |date=2008-07-06 }}". ''Harper's'' September 2004. pp.&nbsp;43–53.</ref> Lapham left two years later, after 28 years as ''Harper's'' editor-in-chief, and launched ''[[Lapham's Quarterly]]''.
-The August 2004 issue contained a photo essay by noted photojournalist [[Peter Turnley]], who had been hired to do a series of photo essays for the magazine. The eight-page spread in August 2004 showed images of death, grieving and funerals from both sides of the U.S. war in Afghanistan. On the U.S. side, Turnley visited the funeral of an Oklahoma National Guard member, Spc. Kyle Brinlee, 21, who was killed when his vehicle ran over an improvised explosive device (IED) in Afghanistan. During his funeral, Turnley shot the open casket as it lay in the back of the high school auditorium where the funeral was held to accommodate 1,200 mourners, and this photo was used in the photo essay. Subsequently, the family sued the magazine in federal court. The case ended in 2007 when the U.S. Supreme Court, although saying the unauthorized publication was in "poor taste", upheld the ruling of the Tenth Circuit that the magazine had not violated the privacy rights of the family, as the family had invited the press, and thus "opened up the funeral scene to the public eye".<ref>Reporter's Committee for Freedom of the Press, [https://www.rcfp.org/browse-media-law-resources/news/dismissal-upheld-magazines-open-casket-photo-case Dismissal upheld in magazine's open-casket photo case], March 28, 2007.</ref>
+The August 2004 issue contained a photo essay by noted photojournalist [[Peter Turnley]], who was hired to do a series of photo essays for the magazine. The eight-page spread in August 2004 showed images of death, grieving, and funerals from both sides of the [[War in Afghanistan (2001–2021)|war in Afghanistan]]. On the U.S. side, Turnley visited the funeral of an Oklahoma National Guard member, Spc. Kyle Brinlee, 21, who was killed when his vehicle ran over an improvised explosive device (IED) in [[Afghanistan]]. During his funeral, Turnley photographed the open casket as it lay in the back of the high school auditorium where the funeral was held to accommodate 1,200 mourners, and the photo was used in the photo essay. Brinlee's family subsequently sued the magazine in federal court. The case ended in 2007 when the [[Supreme Court of the United States|U.S. Supreme Court]] ruled that the unauthorized publication was in "poor taste" but upheld the ruling of the [[United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit|Tenth Circuit]] that the magazine had not violated the privacy rights of the family, since the family had invited the press and, according the court, "opened up the funeral scene to the public eye".<ref>Reporter's Committee for Freedom of the Press, [https://www.rcfp.org/browse-media-law-resources/news/dismissal-upheld-magazines-open-casket-photo-case Dismissal upheld in magazine's open-casket photo case] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170224132200/https://www.rcfp.org/browse-media-law-resources/news/dismissal-upheld-magazines-open-casket-photo-case |date=2017-02-24 }}, March 28, 2007.</ref>
+The March 2006 issue included an article by [[Celia Farber]], "Out of Control: AIDS and the Corruption of Medical Science", presenting [[Peter Duesberg]]'s [[AIDS denialism|theory that HIV does not cause AIDS]].<ref>{{cite magazine | url = http://harpers.org/archive/2006/03/out-of-control/ | title = Out Of Control, AIDS and the corruption of medical science | last = Farber | first = Celia | magazine = Harper's Magazine | date = March 1, 2006 | volume = March 2006 | access-date = 2006-03-13 | archive-date = 2013-01-28 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20130128000852/http://harpers.org/archive/2006/03/out-of-control/ | url-status = live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news | url = https://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/13/business/media/13harpers.html | title = An Article in Harper's Ignites a Controversy Over H.I.V. | newspaper = The New York Times | last = Miller | first = Lia | date = March 13, 2006 | access-date = 2006-03-13 | archive-date = 2009-04-24 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20090424140501/http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/13/business/media/13harpers.html | url-status = live }}</ref> It was strongly criticized by AIDS activists,<ref>{{cite book | url = http://www.poz.com/articles/401_2710.shtml | access-date = 2006-03-13 | title = Farber Feedback | publisher = POZ Magazine | date = 2006-02-27 | archive-date = 2006-03-25 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20060325163948/http://www.poz.com/articles/401_2710.shtml | url-status = live }}</ref> scientists and physicians,<ref>[http://www.aidstruth.org/harper-farber.php Letters from scientists and physicians criticizing Harper's for poor fact-checking of Celia Farber's article on AIDS.] Accessed 21 Oct 2006. {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060812180418/http://www.aidstruth.org/harper-farber.php |date=August 12, 2006 }}</ref> the ''[[Columbia Journalism Review]]'',<ref>[https://www.cjr.org/behind_the_news/harpers_races_right_over_the_e.php?page=1 Harper's Races Right over the Edge of a Cliff] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160819232250/http://www.cjr.org/behind_the_news/harpers_races_right_over_the_e.php?page=1 |date=2016-08-19 }}, by Gal Beckerman. Published in the ''[[Columbia Journalism Review]]'' on March 8, 2006. Accessed June 14, 2007.</ref> and others as inaccurate and promoting a scientifically discredited theory.<ref>{{cite book | url = http://www.thenation.com/blogs/notion?pid=65330 | title = Harper's Publishes AIDS Denialist | last = Kim | first = Richard | date = March 2, 2006 | access-date = 2006-03-13 | archive-date = 2014-10-30 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20141030053942/http://www.thenation.com/blogs/notion?pid=65330 | url-status = live }}</ref> The [[Treatment Action Campaign]], a South African organization working for greater popular access to HIV treatments, posted a response by eight researchers documenting more than 50 errors in the article.<ref>{{cite book |url=http://www.tac.org.za/Documents/ErrorsInFarberArticle.pdf |title=Errors in Celia Farber's March 2006 article in Harper's Magazine |last=Gallo |first=Robert |author2=Nathan Geffen |author3=Gregg Gonsalves |author4=Richard Jeffreys |author5-link=Daniel Kuritzkes |author5=Daniel R. Kuritzkes |author6=Bruce Mirken |author7=John P. Moore |author8=Jeffrey T. Safrit |publisher=Treatment Action Campaign |date=March 4, 2006 |access-date=2006-03-13 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090616194132/http://tac.org.za/Documents/ErrorsInFarberArticle.pdf |archive-date=2009-06-16 }}</ref>
-The March 2006 issue contained [[Celia Farber]]'s article, "Out of Control: AIDS and the Corruption of Medical Science", presenting [[Peter Duesberg]]'s [[AIDS denialism|theory that HIV does not cause AIDS]].<ref>{{cite journal
-| url = http://harpers.org/archive/2006/03/out-of-control/ | title = Out Of Control, AIDS and the corruption of medical science | last = Farber | first = Celia | journal = [[Harper's|Harper's Magazine]] | date = March 1, 2006 | access-date = 2006-03-13}}</ref><ref>{{cite news | url = https://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/13/business/media/13harpers.html | title = An Article in Harper's Ignites a Controversy Over H.I.V. | newspaper = The New York Times | last = Miller | first = Lia | date = March 13, 2006 | access-date = 2006-03-13}}</ref> It was strongly criticized by AIDS activists,<ref>{{cite book
-| url = http://www.poz.com/articles/401_2710.shtml | access-date = 2006-03-13 | title = Farber Feedback | publisher = POZ Magazine| date = 2006-02-27 }}</ref> scientists and physicians,<ref>[http://www.aidstruth.org/harper-farber.php Letters from scientists and physicians criticizing Harper's for poor fact-checking of Celia Farber's article on AIDS.] Accessed 21 Oct 2006. {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060812180418/http://www.aidstruth.org/harper-farber.php |date=August 12, 2006 }}</ref> the ''[[Columbia Journalism Review]]'',<ref>[https://www.cjr.org/behind_the_news/harpers_races_right_over_the_e.php?page=1 Harper's Races Right over the Edge of a Cliff], by Gal Beckerman. Published in the ''[[Columbia Journalism Review]]'' on March 8, 2006. Accessed June 14, 2007.</ref> and others as inaccurate and promoting a scientifically discredited theory.<ref>{{cite book
-| url = http://www.thenation.com/blogs/notion?pid=65330 | title = Harper's Publishes AIDS Denialist | last = Kim | first = Richard | date = March 2, 2006 | access-date = 2006-03-13}}</ref> The [[Treatment Action Campaign]], a South African organization working for greater popular access to HIV treatments, posted a response by eight researchers documenting more than fifty errors in the article.<ref>{{cite book |url=http://www.tac.org.za/Documents/ErrorsInFarberArticle.pdf |title=Errors in Celia Farber's March 2006 article in Harper's Magazine |last=Gallo |first=Robert |author2=Nathan Geffen |author3=Gregg Gonsalves |author4=Richard Jeffreys |author5=Daniel R. Kuritzkes |author6=Bruce Mirken |author7=John P. Moore |author8=Jeffrey T. Safrit |publisher=Treatment Action Campaign |date=March 4, 2006 |access-date=2006-03-13 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090616194132/http://tac.org.za/Documents/ErrorsInFarberArticle.pdf |archive-date=2009-06-16 }}</ref>
-Lewis Lapham was succeeded as ''Harper's'' editor by [[Roger Hodge]] in 2006.<ref name="NYT-20180418">Jaclyn Peiser, [https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/18/business/media/harpers-editor-fired.html "Harper's Editor Insists He Was Fired Over Katie Roiphe Essay"], ''[[The New York Times]]'', April 18, 2018.</ref> Since that time, the magazine has had a number of shorter-termed editors in chief, several of whom were fired amid various controversies.<ref name="NYT-20180418" /> On January 25, 2010, the firing of the magazine's editor, [[Roger Hodge]], by publisher [[John R. MacArthur]] was met with criticism among the magazine's subscribers and staff.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/01/business/media/01harpers.html?pagewanted=1&ref=business|title=Editorial Shake-Up as Harper's Tries to Stabilize in a Downturn|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|access-date=29 December 2014|first=Stephanie|last=Clifford|date=January 31, 2010}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mediaite.com/online/harpers-publisher-backlash-grows-after-firing-beloved-editor/|title=Harper's Publisher Backlash Grows After Firing Beloved Editor|date=February 3, 2010|publisher=Mediaite.com|access-date=29 December 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://observer.com/2010/02/listening-in-on-the-iharperis-meltdown/|title=Listening in on the Harper's Meltdown|author=John Koblin|work=The New York Observer|access-date=29 December 2014|date=2010-02-02}}</ref> MacArthur initially claimed Hodge was stepping down for "personal reasons", but later disclosed that he fired Hodge.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/01/26/roger-hodge-steps-down-as-harpers-magazine-editor/?scp=1&sq=roger%20hodge&st=cse|title=Update: Harper's Magazine Editor Hodge Fired; Didn't Quit|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|access-date=29 December 2014|first=Stephanie|last=Clifford|date=January 26, 2010}}</ref>
+In 2006, Lapham was succeeded as ''Harper's'' editor by [[Roger Hodge]].<ref name="NYT-20180418">Jaclyn Peiser, [https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/18/business/media/harpers-editor-fired.html "Harper's Editor Insists He Was Fired Over Katie Roiphe Essay"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180419233913/https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/18/business/media/harpers-editor-fired.html |date=2018-04-19 }}, ''[[The New York Times]]'', April 18, 2018.</ref> Since that time, the magazine has had a number of shorter-termed editors in chief, several of whom were fired amid various controversies.<ref name="NYT-20180418" /> On January 25, 2010, the firing of the magazine's editor, Roger Hodge, by publisher John R. MacArthur was met with criticism among the magazine's subscribers and staff.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/01/business/media/01harpers.html?pagewanted=1&ref=business|title=Editorial Shake-Up as Harper's Tries to Stabilize in a Downturn|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|access-date=29 December 2014|first=Stephanie|last=Clifford|date=January 31, 2010|archive-date=29 December 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141229175624/http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/01/business/media/01harpers.html?pagewanted=1&ref=business|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mediaite.com/online/harpers-publisher-backlash-grows-after-firing-beloved-editor/|title=Harper's Publisher Backlash Grows After Firing Beloved Editor|date=February 3, 2010|publisher=Mediaite.com|access-date=29 December 2014|archive-date=29 December 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141229181414/http://www.mediaite.com/online/harpers-publisher-backlash-grows-after-firing-beloved-editor/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://observer.com/2010/02/listening-in-on-the-iharperis-meltdown/|title=Listening in on the Harper's Meltdown|author=John Koblin|work=The New York Observer|access-date=29 December 2014|date=2010-02-02|archive-date=2014-12-29|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141229175202/http://observer.com/2010/02/listening-in-on-the-iharperis-meltdown/|url-status=live}}</ref> MacArthur initially claimed Hodge was stepping down for "personal reasons", but later disclosed that he fired Hodge.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/01/26/roger-hodge-steps-down-as-harpers-magazine-editor/?scp=1&sq=roger%20hodge&st=cse|title=Update: Harper's Magazine Editor Hodge Fired; Didn't Quit|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|access-date=29 December 2014|first=Stephanie|last=Clifford|date=January 26, 2010|archive-date=29 December 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141229181728/http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/01/26/roger-hodge-steps-down-as-harpers-magazine-editor/?scp=1&sq=roger%20hodge&st=cse|url-status=live}}</ref>
-[[Ellen Rosenbush]] served from 2010 to 2015. She returned in January 2016, when MacArthur fired Christopher Cox, who had been named editor only three months prior in October 2015.<ref name="NYT-20180418" /><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/03/business/media/harpers-magazine-publisher-fires-christopher-cox-as-editor.html/|title=Harper's Magazine Publisher Fires Christopher Cox as Editor|author=Alexandra Alter|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|access-date=18 May 2016|date=2016-02-02}}</ref>
+[[Ellen Rosenbush]] served as editor from 2010 to 2015. She returned in January 2016 when MacArthur fired Christopher Cox, who had been named editor only three months prior in October 2015.<ref name="NYT-20180418" /><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/03/business/media/harpers-magazine-publisher-fires-christopher-cox-as-editor.html/|title=Harper's Magazine Publisher Fires Christopher Cox as Editor|author=Alexandra Alter|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|access-date=18 May 2016|date=2016-02-02|archive-date=2016-02-08|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160208004331/http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/03/business/media/harpers-magazine-publisher-fires-christopher-cox-as-editor.html?|url-status=live}}</ref>
-James Marcus assumed the post of editor in 2016.<ref name="NYT-20180418" /> In March 2018, an essay by [[Katie Roiphe]] on the [[#MeToo]] movement excited controversy both online and inside ''Harper's''. Marcus had complained about the piece, suggesting the critique of [[#MeToo]] was inappropriate in light of ''Harper's'' "longtime reputation as a gentleman's smoking club"; he attributed this disagreement as a primary cause of his firing in 2018.<ref name="NYT-20180418" /> In April 2018, Ellen Rosenbush assumed the title of editorial director. In October 2019, the magazine announced that novelist and essayist Christopher Beha would be taking over as editor, with Rosenbush remaining as editor-at-large.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/21/business/media/a-new-top-editor-takes-the-hot-seat-at-harpers-magazine.html|title=A New Top Editor Takes the Hot Seat at Harper’s Magazine|last=Tracy|first=Marc|date=2019-10-21|work=The New York Times|access-date=2019-10-24|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}}</ref>
+James Marcus assumed the post of editor in 2016.<ref name="NYT-20180418" /> In March 2018, an essay by [[Katie Roiphe]] on the [[Me Too movement|#MeToo]] movement excited controversy both online and inside ''Harper's''. Marcus had complained about the piece, suggesting the critique of #MeToo was inappropriate in light of ''Harper's'' "longtime reputation as a gentleman's smoking club"; he attributed this disagreement as a primary cause of his firing in 2018.<ref name="NYT-20180418" /> In April 2018, Ellen Rosenbush assumed the title of editorial director. In October 2019, the magazine announced that novelist and essayist Christopher Beha would be taking over as editor, with Rosenbush remaining as editor-at-large.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/21/business/media/a-new-top-editor-takes-the-hot-seat-at-harpers-magazine.html|title=A New Top Editor Takes the Hot Seat at Harper's Magazine|last=Tracy|first=Marc|date=2019-10-21|work=The New York Times|access-date=2019-10-24|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331|archive-date=2019-10-24|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191024143414/https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/21/business/media/a-new-top-editor-takes-the-hot-seat-at-harpers-magazine.html|url-status=live}}</ref>
-In July 2020, ''Harper's'' published an [[open letter]] called "[[A Letter on Justice and Open Debate]]" criticizing "illiberalism" and promoting a tolerance of different viewpoints. The letter received a mixed response on [[Twitter]], with some remarking that the prominent signatories had "bigger platforms and more resources than most other humans" and were unlikely to face repercussions for anything they said, and others taking umbrage at particular signatories such as [[J. K. Rowling]], who faced recent criticism for [[Politics of J. K. Rowling#Transgender people|her comments on transgender issues]].<ref>{{cite news |last1=Schuessler |first1=Jennifer |last2=Harris |first2=Elizabeth A. |title=Artists and Writers Warn of an 'Intolerant Climate.' Reaction Is Swift. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/07/arts/harpers-letter.html |access-date=9 July 2020 |work=The New York Times |date=7 July 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Chiu |first1=Allyson |title=Letter signed by J.K. Rowling, Noam Chomsky warning of stifled free speech draws mixed reviews |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/07/08/letter-harpers-free-speech/ |access-date=9 July 2020 |work=The Washington Post |date=8 July 2020}}</ref>
+In July 2020, ''Harper's'' published an [[open letter]] called "[[A Letter on Justice and Open Debate]]" criticizing "illiberalism" and promoting a tolerance of different viewpoints. The letter received a mixed response on [[Twitter]] with some remarking that the prominent signatories had "bigger platforms and more resources than most other humans" and were unlikely to face repercussions for anything they said, and others taking umbrage at particular signatories such as [[J. K. Rowling]], who faced recent criticism for [[Politics of J. K. Rowling#Transgender rights|her comments on transgender issues]].<ref>{{cite news |last1=Schuessler |first1=Jennifer |last2=Harris |first2=Elizabeth A. |title=Artists and Writers Warn of an 'Intolerant Climate.' Reaction Is Swift. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/07/arts/harpers-letter.html |access-date=9 July 2020 |work=The New York Times |date=7 July 2020 |archive-date=10 March 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210310120534/https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/07/arts/harpers-letter.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Chiu |first1=Allyson |title=Letter signed by J.K. Rowling, Noam Chomsky warning of stifled free speech draws mixed reviews |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/07/08/letter-harpers-free-speech/ |access-date=9 July 2020 |newspaper=The Washington Post |date=8 July 2020 |archive-date=24 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200724213221/https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/07/08/letter-harpers-free-speech/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
 ==Notable contributors==
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 * [[Horatio Alger]]
 * [[Frederic H. Balfour]]
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 * [[John R. Chapin]]
 * [[Noam Chomsky]]
-* [[Hamilton Morris]]
 * [[Winston Churchill]]
 * [[Florence Earle Coates]]
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 * [[Sol Eytinge Jr.]]
 * [[Lucine Finch]]
+* [[Thomas Frank]]
 * [[Jonathan Franzen]]
 * [[Robert Frost]]
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 * [[Stanley Milgram]]
 * [[John Stuart Mill]]
+* [[Hamilton Morris]]
 * [[John Muir]]
 * [[Thomas Nast]]
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 * [[Kurt Vonnegut]]
 * [[William T. Vollmann]]
+* [[Adelaide Cilley Waldron]]
 * [[David Foster Wallace]]
 * [[H. G. Wells]]
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 * [[Howard Zinn]]
 * [[Slavoj Žižek]]
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 ==Gallery==
-Posters by [[Edward Penfield]]
+<gallery caption="Posters by [[Edward Penfield]]" mode="packed" heights="160px">
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 File:Harper's January.png|January 1894
 File:Brooklyn Museum - Harper's Poster - January 1895 - Edward Penfield.jpg|January 1895
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-==Footnotes==
+==Notes==
+{{notelist}}
+== References ==
 {{Reflist}}
 ==Further reading==
+* {{Cite encyclopedia |editor-last=Gabler-Hover |editor-first=Janet |editor2=Robert Sattelmeyer |year=2006 |title=Book and Periodical Illustration in America, 1820–1870 |url=http://www.enotes.com/book-periodical-illustration-reference/book-periodical-illustration |encyclopedia=American History Through Literature, 1820–1870 |volume=1 |location=Detroit |publisher=Thomson/Gale |isbn=9780684314600 |oclc=1102155210 |pages=144–48}}
-* Lilly, Thomas. "The National Archive: ''Harper's New Monthly Magazine'' and the Civic Responsibilities of a Commercial Literary Periodical, 1850–1853." ''American Periodicals'', vol. 15, no. 2 (2005), pp. 142–162. {{JSTOR|20771182}}.
+* {{Cite magazine |last=Lilly |first=Thomas |date=2005 |title=The National Archive: ''Harper's New Monthly Magazine'' and the Civic Responsibilities of a Commercial Literary Periodical, 1850–1853 |magazine=American Periodicals |volume=15 |issue=2 |pages=142–162 |jstor=20771182}}
 ==External links==
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 * {{Official website|https://harpers.org/}}
+* [https://harpers.org/issues/?decade=1850 Official archive] {{subscription required}}
-* {{Gutenberg author | id=Harper,+Various+(magazine)}}
+* [https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/serial?id=harpers Guide to ''Harper's Magazine'' on the Internet] (from the [[Online Books Page]])
-* {{Internet Archive author |search=("Harper's Magazine")}}
+* [https://archive.org/search.php?query=%28%22Harper%27s+Magazine%22%29&sort=date ''Harper's Magazine''] at the [[Internet Archive]]
 * [http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/008919716 ''Harper's New Monthly Magazine'' digital archive] at [[Hathi Trust]]
+* {{NYPL Digital Gallery keyword|Harper's Magazine|1842 illustrations from ''Harper's Magazine''}}
-* [https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/serial?id=harpers ''Harper's Magazine'' digital archive] (1850-1925) at [[The Online Books Page]]
-* [https://www.unz.com/print/Harpers/ ''The Harpers Monthly'' digital archive] (searchable) at ''[[The Unz Review]]''
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-* [http://www.enotes.com/book-periodical-illustration-reference/book-periodical-illustration "Book and Periodical Illustration in America, 1820–1870]." ''American History through Literature, 1820–1870''. Ed. Janet Gabler-Hover and Robert Sattelmeyer. Detroit: Charles Scribner's Sons, 2006. 144–48.
-* {{NYPL Digital Gallery keyword|Harper's Magazine|Illustrations from ''Harper's Magazine''}}
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