Regular LQ contributor and author of such books as Atlantic and The Professor and the Madman, Simon Winchester described in our Sea issue a few of his journeys wandering “ceaselessly about on the world's oceans…in all weathers and seasons and climates.” On the LQ podcast, he tells more of his favorite tales from a life at sea.
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Lewis H. Lapham talks to Erica Benner, author of Be Like the Fox: Machiavelli in His World. More
Lewis H. Lapham talks with Barbara Ehrenreich, author of Natural Causes: An Epidemic of Wellness, the Certainty of Dying, and Killing Ourselves to Live Longer. More
Lewis H. Lapham speaks with the author of Every Drop of Blood: The Momentous Second Inauguration of Abraham Lincoln. More
“Lewis understood that without the past, we lose the ability to think productively or even understand the present.” More
Lewis H. Lapham talks with Stephen Greenblatt, author of The Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve. More
