This month’s Letters section is devoted to remembrances of Lewis H. Lapham (1935–2024), the editor of Harper’s Magazine from 1976 to 1981 and from 1983 to 2006. I first worked for Lewis just out of ...

Lewis Lapham, who passed away at 89 last month, was a prince of American letters. To say that Lapham was well put together would be an understatement. Lapham’s prose was as elegant and sharply cut as ...

Lewis H. Lapham’s correspondence with Henry Kissinger can be read here. Lewis H. Lapham wanted to be remembered as a literary man and an essayist, and no one should begrudge his lofty ambition to be ...

Lewis H. Lapham, the innovative editor who revived Harper’s magazine and penned books and essays that skewered the American upper class from which he sprang, died Tuesday in Rome. He was 89. His ...

Lewis H. Lapham, who served two stints as editor of Harper’s magazine, has died in Rome at age 89. Lapham, the patrician son of a shipping and banking magnate and the grandson of a mayor of San ...

In this erudite polemic, Harper's editor Lapham charges that the United States is run by a selfish oligarchy, a ruling elite that preaches democracy and a free market ...

Lewis H. Lapham, editor emeritus of Harper’s Magazine and the founding editor of Lapham’s Quarterly, will speak Thursday at the University of Minnesota’s Willey Hall. The author of 13 books and host ...

This new journal pits insights from throughout history against the test of time and uses them to dissect current events. Four times a year, the editors of the journal gather a set of relevant texts ...

Lewis H. Lapham is a national correspondent for *Harper's Magazine*. He is also the editor of *Lapham's Quarterly*, a journal of history which debuted spring of 2007. Mr. Lapham is the author of ...

2007-06-03T12:00:08-04:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/e62/197000-m.jpgLewis Lapham was interviewed about his life, his career, and his body of writing. Topics ...