Preamble Politics Feast of Fools By Lewis H. Lapham How American democracy became all about the rule of money. 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 Friendship That Gummy Jungle By Francine Prose Humans are herd animals; it’s the nature of our species. 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 Medicine The God in the Machine By Lewis H. Lapham Americans ask of medicine more than medicine can deliver—not only the cure for death, but also the gift of riches. More
Preamble States of War The Gulf of Time By Lewis H. Lapham An introduction to Lapham’s Quarterly. More
