Floating around the margins and swimming through the middle of maps between the eighth and sixteenth centuries was a whole aquarium of magical, fantastical sea monsters. Chet Van Duzer makes the introductions to all these various leviathans, sirens, mermaids, and sea serpents, who inhabit the pages of his book, Sea Monsters on Medieval and Renaissance Maps.
Lewis H. Lapham speaks with the author of American Republics: A Continental History of the United States, 1783–1850. More
Lewis Lapham talks with Ian Mortimer about the past millennium of human innovation. More
Lewis H. Lapham speaks with the author of The Tragic Mind: Fear, Fate, and the Burden of Power. More
Lewis H. Lapham talks with Steve Fraser, author of Class Matters: The Strange Career of an American Delusion. More
Lewis H. Lapham talks with Jill Lepore, author of These Truths: A History of the United States. More
Lewis H. Lapham talks to Erica Benner, author of Be Like the Fox: Machiavelli in His World. More
