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The top 10 neighbors for Lapham's Quarterly split almost evenly between literary and political magazines and individual journalists — a mix that defines the shape of this audience more than any single neighbor does. Similarity here measures how closely two entities' audiences resemble each other in composition; scores across the top 10 run from 0.98 to 0.96, a narrow band with no dominant pull.
Five of the ten neighbors are magazines: Harper's Magazine (0.98), London Review of Books (0.98), Granta (0.97), The New Republic (0.97), and CJR (0.97). Three are journalists: Emily Nussbaum (0.97), Jay Rosen (0.96), and Rebecca Traister (0.96). Jessica Valenti (0.96), an author, and Longreads (0.97), a website, round out the set. The presence of three individual journalists — not publications — at scores above 0.96 is the structural note worth marking: this audience tracks bylines as readily as mastheads.
The flat shape indicates an audience that is broadly consistent across a range of literary-intellectual media rather than anchored to any single outlet or voice.
