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 ...

In an age of hyperbole and literal-mindedness, Lewis H. Lapham, who died on Tuesday at 89, was a master of ironic understatement. As the personal computer and the touch screen turned everyone into a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

En route to the year 802,701 A.D., in which he was to rescue the gentle Eloi from their cruel Morlock masters, Lewis Lapham stopped off at, oh, about a week from today, to see the Republican National ...

On the C-SPAN Networks: Lewis H. Lapham is a Founder and Editor for the Lapham's Quarterly with 39 videos in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first appearance was a 1980 Public Affairs Event as an Editor ...