Lapham’s Quarterly
Lapham’s Quarterly is a magazine of history and ideas founded and edited by Lewis H. Lapham.
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Lapham’s Quarterly Announces New Stewardship
The magazine will relaunch under the stewardship of Bard College and its Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities in 2025. More
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Lewis H. Lapham | 1935-2024
A statement from the Board of the American Agora Foundation. More
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Lapham’s Quarterly Is on Hiatus
But the American Agora Foundation is already planning for the future. More
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Welcoming Our New Executive Director and Publisher
Paul W. Morris joins Lapham’s Quarterly and the American Agora Foundation. More
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Ignorant, Pigheaded, and Perverse
Brenda Wineapple and Lewis H. Lapham review the impeachment of Andrew Johnson. More
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Curtis White in Conversation with Lewis H. Lapham
A discussion celebrating our Freedom issue. More
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Paul Tough in Conversation with Lewis H. Lapham
Celebrating our Education issue with a discussion on how the history of learning rhymes with our current moment. More
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2022 in Review on Roundtable
The sixteen most read essays and excerpts on the Lapham’s Quarterly website this year. More
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Two Kinds of Patriotism
Adam Hochschild and Lewis H. Lapham discuss our fragile democracy. More
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A Fiery Gospel
Kermit Roosevelt III and Lewis H. Lapham discuss changing the American story. More
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Fiction Is History
Maya Jasanoff and Lewis H. Lapham follow Joseph Conrad across the sea. More
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You’ll Miss Us When We’re Gone
Michael Knox Beran and Lewis H. Lapham discuss the rise and fall of the WASP. More
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2021 in Review on Roundtable
The sixteen most read essays and excerpts on Lapham’s Quarterly’s website this year. More
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2020 in Review on Roundtable
A look back at the essays and excerpts published on the Quarterly’s website this year. More
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In Memory of Arthur Yorke Allen
Allen was a director of the American Agora Foundation, the publisher of Lapham’s Quarterly. More
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Prizewinning Top Sellers
Since 1918 only seven Pulitzer Prize–winning novels have also been Publishers Weekly’s best-selling novel of the year. More
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2019 in Review on Roundtable
A look back at the essays and excerpts published on the Quarterly’s website this year. More
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“The Earth Is Our Existence”
Readings from the past, from people worried there wouldn’t be a future. More
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Season Three of The World in Time
Announcing a new season of the Lapham’s Quarterly podcast. More
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2018 in Review on Roundtable
A look back at the essays and excerpts published on the Quarterly’s website this year. More