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 Lapham, the former longtime editor of Harper’s Magazine, started smoking in 1952, and he’s been going at it with zeal ever since. “I developed an early passionate attachment,” Mr. Lapham, 78, ...

Sign up for The Media Today, CJR’s daily newsletter. In response to a pair of controversial book reviews by Jennifer Senior in last week’s New York Times Sunday ...

The dean of Harper’s made the modern magazine what it is. In Harper’s, Lapham achieved that effect through a series of formal innovations, which still form the skeleton of the magazine today. These ...

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 ...

The well-respected and much-fêted editor emeritus of Harper's magazine and recipient of a National Magazine Award, Lapham presents a collection of previously published articles that range from the ...

In Albert Camus’ novel The Plague, an aspiring novelist named Joseph Grand can’t progress beyond writing and rewriting ad infinitum a single sentence: “One fine morning in the month of May an elegant ...

Lewis Lapham, the legendary former editor of Harper's, who, beginning in the 1970s, helped change the face of American nonfiction, has a new mission: taking on the Great Paradox of the digital age.

IN THE WINTER OF 1968, Lewis Lapham was sent by the Saturday Evening Post to an ashram at the foothills of the Himalayas to examine the confluence of cultures: The Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, founder of ...

Save this article to read it later. Photo: Getty Images But we have some questions. We are not historians, we are not experts in anything, we didn’t even read War & Peace in college. But maybe that’s ...

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