Charles Mudede decried the chocolate popcorn at Cinerama. “I will not eat that chocolate- covered popcorn. I think it’s an example of what’s wrong with our society,” Mudede’s quote read. “It’s the production of new crap we don’t need… So much ingenuity went into it. People sat around, thought it up, put it together, tested it, sold it. They could ...

There was no SUN last month. We originally planned to publish the Best of The Sun in January, to mark the beginning of our fourth year of publication. Then we decided against it for two seemingly contrary reasons: we couldn’t afford to print enough pages to do the idea justice, and we had second thoughts about anthologizing ourselves after only ...

I rearranged the office furniture last week, to make my surroundings simpler and let in more light. I was rearranging the furniture in my mind, too — straightening the crooked pictures, regarding the tattered beliefs that once fit in but now just blocked the light. There are so many rooms in me, so much light and fear. So much superstitious ...

By Ellen Rosenbush Marilynne Robinson on poverty; Alexander Chee, T Cooper, Garth Greenwell, T Kira Madden, Eileen Myles, Darryl Pinckney, Brontez Purnell, and Michelle Tea on Stonewall; and more une is our birthday month. In 2019 Harper’s Magazine marks 169 years of continuous publication. Throughout its history the magazine has been associated with an expansive roster of the most eminent ...

Bill Shorten says. Speaking to Laura Tingle in his first in-depth press interview in many months, the Opposition leader is both candid and confident. He speaks as a man who has survived every insult and accusation that opponents have thrown at him, and as someone who has been able to set that stuff aside and instead think about what may ...

1. Tahs and Reds slip into unacceptable territory If it feels that Australian rugby is on its knees at times, that’s probably because of the condition of the professional sides in NSW and Queensland​. The two states that provide the bulk of the game’s players are struggling. In fact, if the Waratahs miss out on the finals this year – ...

Wallabies star David Pocock is expected to announce on Tuesday afternoon that he is leaving Australian rugby after the World Cup. The champion back-rower will also give an update on his lingering calf injury during a Brumbies press conference in Canberra at 1:30pm AEST. Pocock has been forced to watch the Brumbies from the sidelines for the majority of the ...

n the middle of April 2007, a short, bald and burly man with a limp and a cane walked into the West Wing of the White House. He carried a small briefcase with folders chaotically jutting out. The man showed his diplomatic passport. He was under the impression that he would be brought directly to the Oval Office for a ...

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The Islamic Action Front (IAF), the largest opposition party in Jordan, yesterday called on the kingdom not to take part in the US-brokered economic conference in Bahrain. Mounir Rashid, IAF official, said in a statement that the forthcoming conference was being organised within the framework of “the so-called US-led deal of the century that aims to liquidate the Palestinian cause.” “Jordan’s ...