On minor characters and human possibility ...

This month’s Letters section is devoted to remembrances of Lewis H. Lapham (1935–2024), the editor of Harper’s Magazine from 1976 to 1981 and from 1983 to 2006. I first worked for Lewis just out of ...

The AARP stands for nothing. In 1999, the group announced that its four-letter initialism, which for more than forty years had denoted the American Association of Retired Persons, would thenceforth ...

From Mysticism, which was published last month by New York Review Books. “Mysticism” is the word for what we modern, critical philosophers are meant to distrust in the name of enlightenment. It is all ...

From Mourning a Breast, which was published in July by New York Review Books. Translated from the Chinese by Jennifer Feeley. Every fall, my friends and I get together to admire the lanterns of the ...

He took George Washington’s and John Quincy Adams’s anti-imperialist admonitions to heart; he spoke passionately about the ...

Lewis H. Lapham’s correspondence with Henry Kissinger can be read here. Lewis H. Lapham wanted to be remembered as a literary ...

From a letter sent in August by Rachel Chambliss, the executive director of operations for the Satanic Temple, to members of the Osceola County school board in Florida. Dear members, On behalf of the ...

From letters exchanged by John Berger and his son Yves, collected in Over to You, which will be published this month by Pantheon Books. Yves, I send two “postcards.” One is a photo taken by Iona Heath ...