Lewis Henry Lapham II (; January 8, 1935 – July 23, 2024) was an American writer. He was the editor of the American monthly Harper's Magazine from 1976 until 1981, and from 1983 until 2006. He was the founder of Lapham's Quarterly, a publication about history and literature, and wrote...
If this be not love, it is madness, and then it is pardonable.
—Louis de Bernières in Captain Corelli's Mandolin