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 ...

The beloved magazine started by Lewis Lapham, who died last year, is being acquired by Bard College. By Benjamin Mullin When Lewis Lapham died last year, it appeared that his magazine might go with ...

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 ...

correctionA previous version of this story incorrectly cited the website Print as the source for an interview with Mr. Lapham. He spoke with University of California Television. The story has been ...

Following his death at age 89 on July 23 in Rome, Harper’s today compares its long-time editor and essayist Lewis H. Lapham to Montaigne, Twain, and Mencken, and quotes from him a truism as relevant ...

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, 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 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 ...

1850's : The town-ho's story / Herman Melville ; Union saving / Editor's Table ; Uttoxeter / Nathaniel Hawthorne ; The siege of Fort Atkinson ; The dividing line between federal and local authority / ...

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 ...