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September 2026

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By Erin Somers Verified, Barrett Swanson Verified, Finn Brunton
| Harper's Magazine Verified
[Revision] The Chaos Machine Harper’s Magazine welcomes reader response. Email us about articles in the magazine. Photographs by Maria Lax from the series Stray Sod, which was on view last month at La Sena Gallery, in Los Angeles. A book of the same title was published in June by Setanta Books © The artist Fall into Winter, a painting by Scott Kahn, whose work is on view this month at David Zwirner, in New York City © Scott Kahn.
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Regarding the Pain of Uggos

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By Barrett Swanson Verified
| Harper's Magazine Verified
Every September, the World Association of Ugly People—also known as the Club dei Brutti—holds its annual festival, both to celebrate its members’ physiognomic repellence and to administer an election for the new club president, an appointment conferred not only for outer unsightliness and lackluster genetics but apparently also for the candidate’s full-throated shamelessness, for it turns out that what matters most in this electoral contest is not the grievousness of the candidate’s...
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How Talking to the ‘Chat’ Crossed Over Into Real Life

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By Barrett Swanson Verified
| The New York Times Verified
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