Hawthornden Foundation Partners with 'Lapham's Quarterly'

Lapham's Quarterly, which was placed on "temporary hiatus" last year due to financial challenges, has received a "lifeline" from Hawthornden Foundation. Hawthornden Foundation, founded by the late former Paris Review publisher and Ecco Press cofounder Drue Heinz, has agreed to take over the commercial lease for the Quarterly's office space in New York City’s Union Square, per an announcement.

The Foundation has also "expressed an interest in preserving and cataloging the Quarterly’s extensive library of literary and historical books, which would be accessible to researchers and scholars upon written request." Lapham's publisher and executive director Paul Morris called the move a "remarkable gesture [that] will allow us additional time to continue to restructure and reimagine the journal's future."

Calling the "contributions to the world of ideas and letters" made by Lapham's founder and namesake Lewis Lapham "immeasurable," Hawthornden Foundation executive director Ellyn Toscano, in a statement, added that the foundation "is proud to honor and preserve his legacy. We are thrilled to ensure that his memory is preserved in the office he called home. Establishing the home of Hawthornden Foundation in this iconic space is a point of pride."