What a wonderful, touching essay. Lewis Lapham was one of the best stylists in American letters in the last century. If I could write like him, or even close to

What a wonderful, touching essay. Lewis Lapham was one of the best stylists in American letters in the last century. If I could write like him, or even close to it, I'd feel like a God. I subscribed to Harpers a long time ago just to read his pieces. What a magazine! I'm just glad to know that as good as he was as a writer and editor, he was also a good, funny, generous and interesting human being.