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A grand tour through the essays of Lewis H. Lapham
- unethical_ban 1y agoWhile I am not interested in the style of the compounded essay, Lewis Lapham was a terrific essayist, and having a link to so much of his work in one place is worth a bookmark on its own. Lapham's Quarterly was a joy to purchase and flip through.
- ahi 1y agoSomehow I missed his passing last year. Harper's was very important to me as a teenager stuck in the cultural wasteland of suburbia. Smart, critical, and often funny, it showed me writing didn't have to suck. I was trying to come up with a descriptor when I found an obit: "Lewis was the last of a breed that never had many members to begin with: the patrician liberal." https://www.newstatesman.com/appreciation/2024/07/lewis-lapham-was-the-great-american-editor https://www.newstatesman.com/appreciation/2024/07/lewis-laph...
- owlninja 1y agoMe too and I thought I looked at HN too much. Here was the only post I could find https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41106041 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41106041