Harper’s Magazine May 2025 Harper’s Magazine May 2025

Harper’s Magazine May 2025

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The May issue includes Ben Ehrenreich’s chronicle of the end of peaceful resistance in the West Bank; Maddy Crowell’s report on a potential government cover-up of toxic waste contamination at the George Air Force Base; Geoff Dyer’s personal essay on his mother’s death and the birthmark that shaped her life; Emily Harnett’s essay on the canonization of Carlo Acutis, the first millennial saint; Audrey Wollen’s review of the new edition of Shulamith Firestone’s Airless Spaces and Benjamin Kunkel’s review of Paul Reitter’s new translation of Capital; and new fiction from Lynn Steger Strong.