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Lewis Lapham

Fellow

Born January 8, 1935 in San Francisco, California, Lewis Lapham
was educated at Yale University (B.A., 1956) and at Cambridge University (1956-1957). He has been a newspaper reporter for The San Francisco Examiner (1957-1959), and for The New York Herald Tribune (1960-1962); contract writer for The Saturday Evening Post (1963-1968), for Life magazine (1969-1970); managing editor of Harper's Magazine (1971-1975); editor of Harper's Magazine (1976-1981 and 1983-2006); and, most recently, founding editor of Lapham's Quarterly (2007-present.)

Inducted into the American Society of Magazine Editor's Hall of Fame in 2007, Lapham continues to write his bi-monthly Notebook column for Harper's Magazine. His documentary film, The American Ruling Class, premiered at the 2005 Tribeca Film Festival in New York City. A member of the Council on Foreign Relations, The Century Club and the Advisory Council to The New School University, Mr. Lapham has lectured at many of the nation's leading universities, among them Yale, Princeton, Dartmouth, Stamford and the Universities of Michigan, Virginia and Oregon. He has also worked with the PEN American Center, sitting on the board of judges for the PEN/Newman's Own Award. He lives in New York City.

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Salvation Boulevard

A novel

By Larry Beinhart

From the Edgar Award-winning novelist and author of Wag the Dog and The Librarian comes a new mystery novel about a private investigator and a case that tests his courage, character and soul. The victim is an atheist professor, the main suspect—who has confessed and is in custody—a Muslim foreign student, the defense attorney a Jew and the detective a born-again Christian. The New York Times says of Beinhart, "The man can really write."

Read glowing reviews of the book in the Chicago Sun-Times and the San Diego Union Tribune. More


Clive Stafford Smith on PBS Documentary

October 16 - November 20 | PBS Affiliates
Watch Nation Books author Clive Stafford Smith in a new PBS documentary, Torturing Democracy. Stafford Smith is the author of Eight o' Clock Ferry to the Windward Side and founder of the legal charity, Reprieve, whose clients include prisoners at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.

November 20 - 21
This is Change?
(WBAI, MNN and more)
Watch/listen to Institute Fellow Jeremy Scahill talk about his latest article on AlterNet, titled, "This is Change?", which profiles the people likely to be major players in an Obama administration. MORE

November 23 | 10 am
Amy Alexander at Watergate Conference
(Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.)
Listen to Institute Fellow Amy Alexander talk with fellow panelists about how bloggers are changing politics. This event is part of the National Association of Black Journalists' Watergate Conference on Political and Congressional Reporting: Did Politics Change the Media or Did Media Change Politics? MORE

December 7 | 4 pm
Gary Younge Pays Tribute to Studs Terkel
(Great Hall, Cooper Union, NYC)
Institute Fellow Gary Younge will be one of the luminaries paying tribute to the life of legendary oral historian and activist Studs Terkel, who died on October 31 at the age of 96. The event will be open to the public and free of charge. MORE

December 8
The Nation Institute Annual Dinner Gala
(Metropolitan Pavilion, NYC)
The Nation Institute's Annual Gala Dinner is Monday, December 8 at the Metropolitan Pavilion in New York. Special guests include Cecile Richards, President of Planned Parenthood; comedian Lewis Black; and Katrina vanden Heuvel, Editor and Publisher of The Nation. MORE

January 15 | 8:30 am
Deepa Fernandes Wins North Star News Prize
(4 Times Square, NYC)
Institute Fellow Deepa Fernandes is one of three winners of the North Star News Prize, which recognizes people of color who have made outstanding contributions to journalism, media and communications, and public understanding of the struggle for social justice. MORE


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