Illustrations by Franz Lang. My mother lost both of her legs on the way to the Barbican Art Gallery. It was her day off, and she was going there to see an exhibition called Unravel: The Power and Politics of Textiles in Art.

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Spotify’s plot against musicians. In reality, Spotify was subject to the outsized influence of the major-label oligopoly of Sony, Universal, and Warner, which together owned a 17 percent stake in the company when it launched.

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Like many, I had assumed that her name, Elizabeth Clare Prophet, was an alias or affectation. Given what I knew of her—of the strange books she wrote, of the strange church she led—it seemed a little on the nose.

We at Harper’s Magazine mourn the loss of our editor emeritus, Lewis H. Lapham (1935–2024), who died on July 23 in Rome. A dear friend and colleague for more than half a century, Lapham ran the magazine for nearly three decades, serving as editor from 1976 to 1981 and again from 1983 to 2006, while regularly contributing columns and essays that were compared to …

The print edition of Harper’s February 2025 issue: Barrett Swanson on sobriety and transcendence at Bonnaroo; Caitlín Doherty on the last days of Davos; Justin Nobel searches for Simon & Schuster’s radioactive oil waste in South Texas; Joe Kloc on the century-long struggle to prove the Collatz conjecture; Sam Sacks

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