Roundtable

Opinions and analysis from Lapham’s Quarterly writers and editors.

October 27, 2026

The Conscious Pariah

By Benjamin Moser

Hannah Arendt never defined herself as a Zionist. Or as an anti-Zionist. About Israel, what did she believe?

October 19, 2026

The Silence of Agamemnon

By Benjamin A. Saltzman

Since antiquity, artists have depicted figures hiding their faces or covering their eyes. What does it mean when we turn away?

October 13, 2026

The Knife’s Edge

By Roger Berkowitz

By 1945, Hannah Arendt believed Zionism had lost its way. The publication of “Zionism Reconsidered” threatened to exile her anew, this time from the “homeland” of friendship.

October 02, 2026

Song of a Lost World

By Curtis White

Seven theses on resistance.

September 22, 2026

Now the Music Ceases

By Donovan Hohn

In memory of Annie Dillard.

September 17, 2026

Dear Lewis, Dear Annie

By Annie Dillard and Lewis H. Lapham

A writer, recently returned from the Galápagos, corresponds with her assigning editor.

September 15, 2026

Tracing Shadows

By Namwali Serpell

What Toni Morrison made of Moby Dick and Huckleberry Finn.

September 14, 2026

The Artist (Formerly) Known as Louis Rigaud

By Marlene L. Daut

Over the course of a century, a nineteenth-century artist’s paintings traveled from Port-au-Prince to New Orleans to Washington to New Haven. His name stayed in the archives, waiting to be found.