Rest in Peace, Lapham

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Rest in Peace, Lapham

The dean of Harper’s made the modern magazine what it is.

Lewis Lapham’s influence on the shape of the American magazine through his work at Harper’s can hardly be overstated. Many tributes have been written to this effect in the past few days, and I suspect many more will be written in the weeks and months to come as all the little eminences of American...