Lapham's Quarterly is a literary magazine founded in 2007 by former Harper's Magazine

Harper's Magazine

Harper's Magazine is a monthly magazine of literature, politics, culture, finance, and the arts, with a generally left-wing perspective. It is the second-oldest continuously published monthly magazine in the U.S. . The current editor is Ellen Rosenbush, who replaced Roger Hodge in January 2010...

editor Lewis H. Lapham

Lewis H. Lapham

Lewis H. Lapham is an American writer. He was the editor of the American monthly Harper's Magazine from 1976 until 1981, and from 1983 until 2006. He also is the founder of the eponymous publication about history and literature entitled Lapham's Quarterly. He has written numerous books on...

. Each issue examines a theme using primary source material from history. The inaugural issue "States of War" contained dozens of essays, speeches, and excerpts from historical authors ranging from Thucydides

Thucydides

Thucydides was a Greek historian and author from Alimos. His History of the Peloponnesian War recounts the 5th century BC war between Sparta and Athens to the year 411 BC...

, William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon"...

, Sun Tzu

Sun Tzu

Sun Wu , style name Changqing , better known as Sun Tzu or Sunzi , was an ancient Chinese military general, strategist and philosopher who is traditionally believed, and who is most likely, to have authored The Art of War, an influential ancient Chinese book on military strategy...

, Mark Twain

Mark Twain

Samuel Langhorne Clemens , better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American author and humorist...

, among others. Recent issue themes included "The City," "Sports & Games," and "Arts & Letters." Each issue includes an introductory essay by Lapham, readings from historical contributors, and essays by contemporary writers and historians such as Salman Rushdie, Christopher Hitchens

Christopher Hitchens

Christopher Eric Hitchens is an Anglo-American author and journalist whose books, essays, and journalistic career span more than four decades. He has been a columnist and literary critic at The Atlantic, Vanity Fair, Slate, World Affairs, The Nation, Free Inquiry, and became a media fellow at the...

, Francine Prose

Francine Prose

Francine Prose is an American writer. Since March 2007 she has been the president of PEN American Center. She graduated from Radcliffe College in 1968 and received a Guggenheim fellowship in 1991....

, and Simon Winchester

Simon Winchester

Simon Winchester, OBE , is a British-American author and journalist who resides mostly in the United States. Through his career at The Guardian, Winchester covered numerous significant events including Bloody Sunday and the Watergate Scandal...

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Lapham's Quarterly is published by the American Agora Foundation, a not-for-profit foundation dedicated to fostering interest in history.

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Editor: Lewis H. Lapham

Lewis H. Lapham

Lewis H. Lapham is an American writer. He was the editor of the American monthly Harper's Magazine from 1976 until 1981, and from 1983 until 2006. He also is the founder of the eponymous publication about history and literature entitled Lapham's Quarterly. He has written numerous books on...

Executive Editor: Kira Brunner Don

Associate Editors: Elias Altman, Aidan Flax-Clark, Michelle Legro

Art Director: Timothy Don

Graphics Designer: Jason Brown

Executive Assistant: Ann K. Gollin

Publisher: Louisa Kearney

External links

• Lapham's Quarterly, official website.
• "Present-Day Soapbox for Voices of the Past", by Tim Arango, The New York Times
  The New York Times
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  , Nov 30, 2009
• "In His Own Magazine, an Editor Puts Himself Into an Elite Group", by Sara Irvy, The New York Times
  The New York Times
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  , Dec 31, 2007
• "F. Scott Fitzgerald, It Seems, Never Met Lewis Lapham", by Gary Shapiro, New York Sun, February 23, 2007.
• "Lapham's Quarterly: Cutting-Edge Journalism From The Distant Past", Tony Hendra
  Tony Hendra
  Tony Hendra is an English satirist and writer who has worked mostly in the United States. Educated at St Albans School and Cambridge University, he was a member of the Cambridge University Footlights revue in 1962, alongside John Cleese, Graham Chapman and Tim Brooke-Taylor.-Career:In 1964 Hendra...
  
  , Huffington Post, Dec 3, 2007.
• "My Library: Lewis Lapham", a look inside the journal’s operations.