Harper’s Magazine October 2026

In our October issue: Kyle Paoletta follows the Democratic Party’s efforts to harness the surge of populism on the American plains, Hari Kunzru reassesses the artistic response to 9/11 and the surveillance apparatus that emerged in the aftermath of the attacks, Belén Fernández visits what remains of the immigration boom towns on the edge of the Darién Gap, J. B. MacKinnon reports on the outcry surrounding Canadian Food Inspection Agency’s decision to cull hundreds of ostriches from a farm, Max Norman on the myth of Cesare Pavese, and new fiction by Tom Drury.