Jezebel: Harpers

Major Mag Editors Address The Dearth Of Female Bylines

Elissa Strauss — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 11:50:00 EST

After a post last month about the gender disparity in magazine publishing, which was followed by VIDA's much more thorough and ultimately conclusive study, I, perhaps naively, expected to see a comment or two from the publications about the roots of this imbalance. Then weeks passed, and, well, basically nothing. For a while I thought that perhaps it was time to give this up. They had all likely seen the numbers; I didn't want to come off whiny. But then my curiosity remained, and I figured it couldn't hurt to ask. More »

It's Time For No-Wave Feminism

Anna North — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 14:50:00 EDT

If we want to get anywhere, feminists need to quit fighting about waves, generations, and other nonsense. Luckily, we've already started. More »

Zadie Smith Takes Over Harper's Books Column, And We Are Happy

Margaret Hartmann — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 12:03:00 EDT

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Zadie Smith will write Harper's New Books column starting with the March 2011 issue, replacing Benjamin Moser. Smith says her mission is, "not simply to describe an end product but to delineate a process, an intimate experience with a book." More »

Xanadu

Sadie Stein — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 15:40:00 EST

"Chances that a 19th century " opium-eater " in Albany, New York, was a woman: 4 in 5." [Harpers] More »

The Harper's (Bazaar) Index: The Couture Economy, Demi Moore, & Joan Collins' Issue With Rich Guys

cheryl — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 15:00:00 EDT

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Do people get confused by Harper's Magazine and Harper's Bazaar? After all, the luxury goods industry is not so different from Halliburton — shameless, ubiquitous, and sooo fucking talented at charging more for less. So again, we're taking things to their (ill)logical end with our own "Harper's (Bazaar) Index", inspired by Harper's famous feature, which parses the world of big oil, big money, big politics and Big Pharma and puts it into easily-digested numerical form. After the jump, Anna and I look at the April issues of both magazines and juxtapose America's economic troubles with John Galliano, mock Demi Moore's personal heroine and compare the average income of "attractive" American men with Joan Collins' anecdote about a rich, nasty Arab sheikh. More »

The Harper's (Bazaar) Index: J. Lo's Diamonds, Giuliani, And The 'Cougar Allure'

Anna Holmes — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 15:00:00 EST

Do people get confused by Harper's Magazine and Harper's Bazaar? After all, the luxury goods industry is not so different from Halliburton — shameless, ubiquitous, and really fucking talented at charging more for less. So again, we're taking things to their (ill)logical end with our own "Harper's (Bazaar) Index", inspired by Harper's famous feature, which parses the world of big oil, big money, big politics and Big Pharma and puts it into easily-digested numerical form. After the jump, Intern Cheryl helps me tally up the total retail "worth" of the February 2008 issue of Bazaar, and we also call out Marchesa designer Georgina Chapman's fashion-forward Mercedes, the allure of being a "cougar", and compare America's tired and poor to Jennifer Lopez's diamond collection. More »

Chanel Number Nein

Anna — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 12:20:00 EST

From the "Readings" section of the new issue (January) of Harper's: Russian artist Yevgeniy Fiks donated copies of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin's Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism to 100 global corporations, including Amazon, Coca-Cola & Staples. Although 66 of the books were never heard from (or about) again, 14 copies were accepted, and 20 were officially rejected and returned, including the one sent to the headquarters of Chanel, which begged off with the explanation that the company has "no corporate library at this time." (Staples, for those who care, gladly accepted the book). [Harper's] More »

How The Halliburton Rape Cases Explain Everything We Think About

Moe — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 17:20:53 EST

"Is America establishing a culture of impunity among its contractors operating in areas of armed conflict?" That's the first line of a Harper's story on the Jamie Leigh Jones case — not to be brainfarted with the Jamie Lynn Spears case — now turning American attention to the problems created by outsourcing war to big companies. But take the last nine words away and you're left with pretty much everything that brings us the big horror hits on this site: culture of impunity. MySpace torture, Jeffrey Marsalis, Jeffrey Epstein, gray rape, the 19-year-old raped at Les Deux, the DrunkenStepfather...not gonna go on. It's probably a culture of impunity that emboldened Paul Janka to try and grope me the whole time I was in his apartment, and maybe I contributed to a culture of impunity when I blithely went about my business swatting him off and not, in the name of womanity, telling him off. More »

The Harper's (Bazaar) Index: January 2008

Anna — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 16:30:00 EST

Do people get confused by Harper's Magazine and Harper's Bazaar? After all, the luxury goods industry is not so different from Halliburton — shameless, ubiquitous, and really talented at charging more for less. Once again, we're taking things to their (ill)logical end with our own "Harper's (Bazaar) Index", inspired by Harper's famous feature, which parses the world of big oil, big money, and Big Pharma and puts it into easily-digested numerical form. After the jump, Intern Cheryl helps me tally up the total retail "worth" of the January 2008 issue of Bazaar (hint: it's a little more than half of what 50% of NYU students would take as payment to permanently forfeit their vote), and we riff on the diets of the rich vs. the poor, newly-pregnant Lily Allen, and the dearth of female fashion designers. More »

The Harper's (Bazaar) Index: December 2007

Anna — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 13:00:00 EST

Do people get confused by Harper's Magazine and Harper's Bazaar? After all, the luxury goods industry is not so different from Halliburton — shameless, ubiquitous, and really talented at charging more for less. Following a two month hiatus, we're back with our own Harper's (Bazaar) Index, inspired by Harper's famous feature, which parses the world of big oil, big money, and Big Pharma and puts it into easily-digested numerical form. After the jump, Intern Cheryl helps us tally up the total retail "worth" of the December issue of Bazaar (hint: it's more than the oil industry has given to the 2008 presidential campaigns so far), the number of known sexual partners of the actress Renee Zellweger, and special mention of Judith Regan, Stella McCartney, and the magazine's masthead. More »

The 'Harper's Bazaar' Index: September 2007

Anna Holmes — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 14:00:00 EDT

Do people get confused by Harper's Magazine and Harper's Bazaar? We do! After all, the luxury goods industry is not so different from Halliburton — shameless, ubiquitous, and oh so good at charging more for less. So, as usual, we're taking things to their (ill)logical end with a little mash-up of both magazines in the form of Harper's famous "Index" feature, which parses the world of big oil, big money, and Big Pharma and puts it into easily-digested numerical form. After the jump, see how Rachel Bilson is contributing to the exhaustion of the world's fossil fuels; learn why U.S. firefighters, actress Rita Wilson and singer Courtney Love are all obese; and marvel at the hypocrisy of loving one furry mammal while wearing the pelt of another. More »

The 'Harper's Bazaar' Index: August 2007

Anna Holmes — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 12:20:00 EDT

Do people get confused by Harper's Magazine and Harper's Bazaar? We do! After all, the luxury goods industry is not so different from Halliburton — shameless, ubiquitous, and oh so good at charging more for less! So, as usual, we're taking things to their (ill)logical end with a little mash-up of both magazines in the form of Harper's famous "Index" feature, which parses the world of big oil, big money, and Big Pharma and puts it into easily-digested numerical form. After the jump, see how both middle-schoolers and Jessica Simpson have become better-read; how climate-change may kill off overpriced Estée Lauder perfumes; and how the Atlanta headquarters of Cola-Cola are more culturally-diverse than most editorial fashion spreads.

[Image created by Intern Cheryl, with a large debt to Andrew Hearst]