Preamble Youth Fortune’s Child By Lewis H. Lapham Youth as glimpsed by its elders is a story that comes from afar, showing itself as either lovely to look at or a torment to endure. More
Preamble Death Memento Mori By Lewis H. Lapham Learning how to die, as Michel de Montaigne once rightly said, is the unlearning of how to be a slave. More
Preamble States of Mind The Enchanted Loom By Lewis H. Lapham On the mind’s ability to reinterpret the past and the tenth anniversary of Lapham’s Quarterly. More
Preamble Swindle & Fraud Paper Moons By Lewis H. Lapham Americans have a genius for the artful dodge, but also an infallible willingness to play the fool. More
