Laurent Merceron
Laurent Merceron is a former senior editor at Lapham’s Quarterly.
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The Botanical Origins of a Medieval Madness
Before LSD, medieval life was plagued with the “bad trip” of ergot poisoning, a fungus that caused men and women to hallucinate the devil and dance themselves to death. More
Roundtable
Gold and Silver Coined from Human Blood
Witch hunts were big business, employing hundreds of judges, jailers, and executioners across Europe for hundreds of years. More