Preamble
Hostages to Fortune From the twisted ties of imperial Rome to the warm hearth of the television sitcom, Lewis Lapham takes the measure of the elusive family values that politicians hold so dear. More Preamble
Essays
The Oakling and the Oak Hartley Coleridge began life with limitless promise and ended it viewed as a failure. Anne Fadiman discovers poetry's least fortunate son. More EssaysReconsiderations
The Meaning of Home Arthur Miller didn’t see the American family as a problem that had an answer. J.M. Tyree reconsiders the dramas of this unsentimental playwright. More ReconsiderationsVoices in Time
1521: Reparations All the toils, I’ve endured them for your sake. More Voices in Time
You don’t have to deserve your mother’s love. You have to deserve your father’s. He’s more particular. The father is always a Republican towards his son, and his mother’s always a Democrat.
—Robert Frost, 1960
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Peter Ackroyd Author and translator Peter Ackroyd talks with Aidan Flax-Clark about his new retelling of Thomas Malory’s Le Morte D’Arthur and discusses a little bit about his most recent book of London history, London Under.
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Lewis H. Lapham
is Editor of Lapham's Quarterly. He also serves as editor emeritus and national correspondent for Harper's magazine.
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Your face, my thane, is a book where men / May read strange matters ...
— William Shakespeare
