November 2005 Issue [Reviews] The Still Point of the Turning World Download PDF Adjust Share Joan Didion and the opposite of meaning by Jennifer Szalai, This article is only available as a PDF to subscribers. Download PDF Tags 20th century American Biography Book reviews Joan Didion Novelists More from Jennifer Szalai Remembering Lewis H. Lapham 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… In The Shade Zadie Smith and the limits of being oneself The banality of avarice Why the finance industry never had to lie Adjust Share