Preamble Intoxication Alms for Oblivion By Lewis H. Lapham “One should always be drunk,” proclaimed poet Charles Baudelaire. But the question remains, drunk with what? More
Preamble Foreigners Them By Lewis H. Lapham When we talk about the foreign, the question becomes one of us versus them. But in the end, is one just the opposite side of the other? More
Preamble Home Castles in Air By Lewis H. Lapham The American democracy and dream are the building of castles in air. Whither goeth the one so goeth the other, these days up in smoke and the spout. More
Preamble Epidemic Signs and Wonders By Francine Prose Reading the literature of past plagues and suddenly seeing our present reflected in a mirror. More
