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(15,480 posts)I am grateful that my parents subscribed to The Atlantic Monthly and Harper's while I was growing up. Really opened my mind up to many aspects of art and popular culture, not to mention history and politics.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harper's_Magazine
Harper's Magazine was launched as Harper's New Monthly Magazine in June 1850, by the New York City publisher Harper & Brothers; who also founded Harper's Bazaar magazine, later growing to become HarperCollins Publishing. The first press run, of 7,500 copies, sold out almost immediately; circulation was some 50,000 issues six months later.
The early issues reprinted material pirated from English authors such as Charles Dickens, William Makepeace Thackeray, and the Brontë sisters. 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
In the 1970s, Harper's published Seymour Hersh's reporting of the My Lai Massacre by United States forces in Vietnam.
Under the Lapham-MacArthur leadership, Harper's magazine continued publishing literary fiction by the likes of 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.[12]
Notable contributors
Horatio Alger
Frederic H. Balfour
Wendell Berry
John R. Chapin
Noam Chomsky
Winston Churchill
Florence Earle Coates
Rebecca Curtis
Bernard DeVoto
Stephen A. Douglas
Theodore Dreiser
Irwin Edman
Barbara Ehrenreich
Ralph Ellison
Sol Eytinge Jr.
Jonathan Franzen
Robert Frost
Barbara Garson
John Taylor Gatto
Horace Greeley
Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
Seymour Hersh
Christopher Hitchens
Edward Hoagland
Richard Hofstadter
Winslow Homer
Jim Hougan
William Dean Howells
Henry James
Naomi Klein
Ben Lerner
Jack London
Fitz Hugh Ludlow
Norman Mailer
Herman Melville
Stanley Milgram
John Stuart Mill
John Muir
Thomas Nast
Albert Jay Nock
Joyce Carol Oates
Cynthia Ozick
Kevin Phillips
Marjorie Pickthall
Sylvia Plath
Michael Pollan
Frederic Remington
Marilynne Robinson
Richard Rodriguez
Theodore Roosevelt
J. D. Salinger
George Saunders
Miranda July
David Samuels
Jane Smiley
Zadie Smith
Rebecca Solnit
John Steinbeck
Henry L. Stimson
Alfred Thomas Story
Susan Straight
Booth Tarkington
Sara Teasdale
Hunter S. Thompson
Mark Twain
John Updike
Kurt Vonnegut
David Foster Wallace
E. B. White
Woodrow Wilson
Owen Wister
Tom Wolfe
Howard Zinn
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