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An #obituary for the remarkable Lewis Lapham, creator of the amazing Lapham’s Quarterly:

“On The Remarkable Legacy Of Lewis Lapham” [2024], Literary Hub (https://lithub.com/on-the-remarkable-legacy-of-lewis-lapham/).

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On the Remarkable Legacy of Lewis Lapham

You only meet a few people in your life who, like stars, exert a pull so strong that they alter its trajectory completely. I was lucky enough to enter the orbit of the legendary editor and essayist…

Literary Hub

Henry Edward Hardy Jul 24, 2024

Harper's was so so good during his years.

"Lewis H. #Lapham, the scholarly patrician who edited Harper’s Magazine for nearly three decades, and who in columns, books and later his own magazine, Lapham’s Quarterly, attacked what he regarded as the inequities and hypocrisies of American life, died on Tuesday in Rome. He was 89. "

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/24/business/media/lewis-h-lapham-dead.html

Lewis H. Lapham, Harper’s Editor and Piercing Columnist, Dies at 89

Born into a patrician family, he used Harper’s and later his own Lapham’s Quarterly to denounce what he saw as the hypocrisies and injustices of a spoiled United States.

The New York Times