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HARPER’S MAGAZINE/JANUARY 2021 $7.99 HARI KUNZRU ON Q-ANON NOW IN PAPERBACK Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize • Instant New York Times Bestseller • A Read with Jenna Today Show Book Club Pick • A New York Times Book Review Notable Book • TIME Magazine’s 100 Must-Read Books of 2019 “You won’t want to put down this engrossing, warmhearted book even after you’ve read the last page.” —NPR “The Dutch House has the richness, allusiveness and emotional heft of the best fi ction.” —Boston Globe “Patchett’s storytelling abilities shine in this gratifying novel.” —Associated Press Discover great authors, exclusive offers, and more at HC.com HARPER PERENNIAL “Enchanting.”—People, Best Books of Fall 2019 THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER with MORE THAN 1 MILLION COPIES SOLD Pulitzer Prize Finalist Pulitzer Prize Finalist The Dutch House Ann Patchett A Novel A Novel N E W Y O R K T I M E S B E S T S E L L E R N E W Y O R K T I M E S B E S T S E L L E R Letters 2 Life Is Elsewhere Richard Hiatt, Malcolm Fraser Editor’s Desk 4 A Novel Approach Christopher Beha Easy Chair 7 Complexity Hari Kunzru Harper’s Index 11 Readings 13 A Mutable Feast Karl Ove Knausgaard Catcher Gone Awry the young-adult fictions of Mark David Chapman Feel and Hold Diane Williams Anals of History scientists buttress their knowledge of dinosaur posteriors Hell’s Kitchen one man’s passion for military rations Inhale, Execute U.S. soldiers get fitter, happier, more destructive The Fairground Dorthe Nors And . . . Valerie Chua Sai, Hulda Guzmán, Mike Jackson, and geoengineers are getting warmer Folio 26 THESE PRECIOUS DAYS Ann Patchett Tell me how the story ends From the Archive 49 The Injustice Collector Herbert Gold Letter from Kyiv 50 THE ARMIES OF THE RIGHT Aris Roussinos Inside Ukraine’s extremist militias Poetry 58 LITTLE MUSIC Ishion Hutchinson Report 60 THE GATE OF HEAVEN IS EVERYWHERE Fred Bahnson Among the contemplatives Story 73 THE SOUVENIR MUSEUM Elizabeth McCracken Reviews 81 NEW BOOKS Claire Messud SLOW BURN Yasmine Seale The languid pleasures of Nuri Bilge Ceylan REALITY UNDER MY SKIN Lauren Oyler Tove Ditlevsen’s relentless clarity Puzzle 95 Richard E. Maltby Jr. Findings 96 FOUNDED IN 1850 / VOL. 342, NO. 2048 JANUARY 2021 HARPERS.ORG m a g a z i n e 2 HARPER’S MAGAZINE / JANUARY 2021 John R. MacArthur, President and Publisher Editor Christopher Beha Deputy Editor Rachel Poser Managing Editor Stephanie McFeeters Senior Editors Christopher Carroll, Timothy Farrington, Joe Kloc, Katherine Ryder, Matthew Sherrill Art Director Kathryn Humphries Editor Emeritus Lewis H. Lapham Washington Editor Andrew Cockburn Poetry Editor Ben Lerner Web Editor Violet Lucca Associate Editors Elizabeth Bryant, Will Stephenson Associate Art Director and Designer Lydia Chodosh Assistant Editors Will Augerot, Joseph Frischmuth, Adrian Kneubuhl, Shirley Ngozi Nwangwa, John Sherman Art Researcher Alyssa Coppelman Editorial Interns Jensen Davis, Currie Engel, Lauren Fadiman, Annie Geng Art Intern Emma Frohardt Contributing Editors Andrew J. Bacevich, Kevin Baker, Tom Bissell, Joshua Cohen, John Crowley, Wes Enzinna, Tanya Gold, Gary Greenberg, Jack Hitt, Edward Hoagland, Scott Horton, Frederick Kaufman, Garret Keizer, Mark Kingwell, Walter Kirn, Rafil Kroll- Zaidi, Richard Manning, Clancy Martin, Duncan Murrell, Rachel Nolan, Vince Passaro, Francine Prose, Ellen Rosenbush, Jeff Sharlet, Christine Smallwood, Zadie Smith, Rebecca Solnit, Matthew Stevenson, Barrett Swanson, John Edgar Wideman Contributing Artists Lisa Elmaleh, Balazs Gardi, Samuel James, Nicole Tung, Tomas van Houtryve Vice President and General Manager Lynn Carlson Vice President, Circulation Shawn D. Green Vice President, Marketing and Communications Giulia Melucci Vice President, Advertising Jocelyn D. Giannini Virginia Navarro, Assistant to the Publisher Kim Lau, Senior Accountant Eve Brant, Office Manager Courtney Carlson, Marketing Assistant Cameron French, Advertising Operations Coordinator Advertising Sales: (212) 420- 5773;
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