Harper's will never, ever post its content for free on the internet, says publisher John MacArthur in a three-page statement in the latest issue of the magazine.
In his book Into the Wild, about a young man's fateful journey into the Alaskan wilderness, Jon Krakauer speculated that Christopher McCandless died in 1993 after mistakenly eating the poisonous seeds of the wild sweet pea. The debate over whether this is true continues, and at the New Yorker's Pageturner blog, Krakauer himself weighs in.
How did mass-market fiction go from Harold Robbins and Mario Puzo to James Patterson and Dean Koontz? Mark Brand considers the declining quality of supermarket fiction over the past several decades.