Harper’s Magazine – September 2023: This issue features Justin E. H. Smith’s Elegy for Gen X; Zadie Smith and the Gen X novel; The Rise and Fall of an Iranian Exile and John Jeremiah Sullivan plumbs the Depths…

My Generation

Anthem for a forgotten cohort

by Justin E. H. Smith

Man Called Fran

Plumbing, the depths

by John Jeremiah Sullivan

Waiting for the Lights

The life of an Iranian exile

by Amir Ahmadi Arian