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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.

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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Jan 22, 2025 · 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

I will wait for her in the yard that Maggie and I made so clean and wavy yesterday afternoon. A yard like this is more comfortable than most people know. It is not just a yard. It is like an extended living room. When the hard clay is swept clean as a floor and the fine sand around the edges lined with tiny, irregular grooves, anyone can …

The print edition of Harper’s January 2025 issue: Liz Pelly on Spotify’s plot against musicians, Jordan Michael Smith on civil commitment, Youmna Melhem Chamieh on her family’s hotel in Lebanon, Cynthia Ozick on the epistolary life, a story from Sigrid Nunez, Christopher Tayler on Dino Buzzati, and more.

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In 2012, at the age of thirty-two, the writer Alena Smith went West to Hollywood, like many before her. She arrived to a small apartment in Silver Lake, one block from the Vista Theatre—a single-screen Spanish Colonial Revival building that had opened in …

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