Harper's, Volume 341, Issue 2046, November 2020

Burroughs contributes "The Sultan of Sewers" on page 37, which is a reprint of his "When Did You Stop Wanting to Be President?" from the March 1975 issue.

Published in New York City by Harper's Magazine in November 2020.

Bibliographic Information:

• Not in Shoaf
• Not in Schottlaender
• Raven 20201100HARP.341.2046

Selected Contents: 

• letters
• Kevin Baker: "Easy Chair: You Say You Want a Revolution" (essay)
• Tim Hwang: "Ad Nauseam" (essay)
• Peter Uka: "The Handshake" (art)
• Julie Blackmon: "Midwest Materials" (photograph)
• Edward J. Steele: "Deep Space 19" (essay)
• Matthew Honglotz-Hetling: "Bleat House" (essay)
• Blanca Varela: "Person" (poetry)
• Russ Diamond: "Whine on You Crazy Diamond" (speech)
• Bernette Johnson: "Garden-Variety Racism" (statement)
• Wolfgang Koeppen: "Fata Morgana" (prose)
• Devin Yalkin: 
• "Palmistry in the Shadows" (photograph)
• "Liminal Reflections" (photograph)
• Darryl Daniels: "Militia Intent" (speech)
• Margaret Curtis: "Portrait of My Anxiety" (painting)
• Delcan & Company: illustrations
• Danielle Allen, Jamelle Bouie, Jason Brennan, Sarah Smarsh, and Astra Taylor: "What's in a Vote?" (conversation)
• William S. Burroughs: "The Sultan of Sewers" (essay)
• Nicole Tung: photographs
• Alexander Dziadosz: "State of Deception" (essay)
• Barbara Bloom: art
• Ben Lerner: "The Grove" (prose)
• Mark Smith: illustration
• Andrew Cockburn: "The Enemies Briefcase" (essay)
• Tracy K. Smith: 
• "'You Certainly Have the Right to Your Thoughts in This Minefield'" (poetry)
• "Rapture" (poetry)
• "The Wave After Wave Is One Wave Never Tiring" (poetry)
• Cassidy Early: "Somewhere on the Couch Again" (art)
• Garth Greenwell: "Making Meaning" (essay)
• Wardell Milan: "Sunday, Sitting on the Bank of Butterfly Meadow" (art)
• Mequitta Ahuja: "Sales Slip" (art)
• David Bromwich: "Is America Ungovernable?" (essay)
• Mike McQuade: illustrations
• Michael Harrington: painting
• Michael Deagler: "New Poets" (prose)
• Lidija Haas: "New Books" (book reviews)
• Christopher Beja: "Because God Did Not Relax" (combined review of William Gaddis' works)
• Romy Blümel: illustration
• Gunter Gluecklich: photograph
• Leo Robson: "A Swing and Amis" (essay/review)
• Olive Ayhens: "Bristlecones on the Balcony" (art)
• unstated: "Findings" (essay)
• Claire Rosen: "The Raccoon Feast" (photograph)

Publishing Information: 

• Editor: Christopher Beha
• Deputy Editor: Rachel Poser
• Managing Editor: Stephanie McFeeters
• Senior Editors: Christopher Carroll, Timothy Farrington, Joe Kloc, Katherine Ryder, Matthew Sherrill
• Art Director: Kathryn Humphries
• Editor Emeritus: Lewis H. Lapham
• Washington Editor: Andrew Cockburn
• Poetry Editor: Ben Lerner
• et al