Lewis Lapham

Editor Emeritus of Harper's, Editor of Lapham's Quarterly

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Witty and sophisticated, Lewis Lapham has enthralled audiences at the nation's leading institutions. His speeches are steeped in both today's headlines and American history, as he addresses controversies from the war on terror and the country's caste system, to the triumph—and subsequent stifling—of democracy.
Highlights “Our greatest satirist, elegant, honorable, learned and fair” - Kurt Vonnegut
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Lewis Lapham has been compared to Mark Twain (by Vanity Fair), H.L. Mencken (by The New York Times), and Montaigne (by Tom Wolfe). But as the voice of conviction in an age of conformity, this author, editor, thinker, speaker, and champion of democracy truly needs no comparison. In his 30 years as editor at Harper's Magazine, Lapham continuously revitalized and modernized a century-and-a-half old magazine, publishing only the best contemporary American novelists and journalists. Many of the pieces he commissioned would become bestselling books in their own right.

Lapham's work at Harper's has been honored countless times by The National Magazine Awards, which calls the magazine "consistently challenging, even demanding...[its] power is in its ability to cause sometimes subtle, sometimes seismic shifts in a reader's world view." Lapham addresses controversies from the war on terror to the American caste system (that is, our denial of it) to the triumph of democracy (and the stifling thereof). His provocative speeches are steeped in both today's headlines and American history (his journal, Lapham's Quarterly, is devoted entirely to history). They showcase Lapham to be what Kurt Vonnegut called "without doubt our greatest satirist, elegant, honorable, learned and fair."
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