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Apoorva Tadepalli

Apoorva Tadepalli is a contributing editor at Lapham’s Quarterly.

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Sign language, mushrooms, and St. Patrick’s Day. More

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An ancient kitchen, a bachelor film, and a radical priest. More

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A city of ghosts, a lost film, and a real live socialist. More

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Economic populism, slave patrols, and a Committee of Evil Literature. More

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Hell, stone walls, and a thirst trap. More

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Sleepwalking, clean energy, and multi-level marketing. More

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Detective fiction, modern masculinity, and a freedom movement. More

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Linear timelines, reparations, and garbage strikes. More

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Paw prints, outsider artists, and underwater wine. More

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Human ancestors, a father-daughter correspondence, and the history of alcohol. More

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Christmas traditions, New Year’s festivities, and ethnic politics. More

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Progress, traditionalism, and the medieval fetus. More

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Frankenstein, Sleepy Hollow, and gravestone recipes. More

Manual of the Corporation of the City of New York for 1859

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Shame, poetry, and the first Slovak novel. More

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Taylor Swift, pyramids, and Frogmore stew. More

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Roman baths, futurism, and a successor ideology. More

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Soviet satire, Tammany Hall, and universal basic income. More

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Bruce Springsteen, The Wizard of Oz, and wild horses. More

Chinese Poem Lamenting the Death of a Friend

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Masculinity, courtship, and dual-abuse. More

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Brutalism, pop art, and an exorcist. More

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Freckles, abortion undergrounds, and human hobbits. More

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Polenta, a penis worm, and the subterranean homesick blues. More

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Chinatown, the Renaissance, and the World Wide Web. More

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A glass gown, a wild party hostess, and a spike-toothed worm. More

Full Disk Earth, Apollo 17, 1972, Harrison Schmitt

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Drugs, prank calls, and swamp spirits. More

Sheet of Studies of a Dragonfly, Grasshopper, Butterflies, Moths, and Beetles, c. 1636

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Two cents from Virginia Woolf, Jane Austen, and Ben Franklin. More

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Female friendship, a public toilet, and a traveling merchant. More

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Pockets, peanuts, and poetry. More

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Doomsday diaries, avocado wars, and a Sufi lodge in Jerusalem. More

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Victorian séances, budget laws, and trauma narratives. More

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Irish goodbyes, destinationless wanders, and Gothic aesthetics. More

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Video games, chestnuts, and extremely online women. More

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Border disputes, hobos, and traveling recipes. More

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A massacre of forest protectors, an apocalypse-proof building, and a Van Gogh in an Ikea bag. More

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A plague film, a catchy song, and a Chinese dissident. More

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Systems novels, lessons for organizers, and the emerging terrain of struggle. More

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Victorian murders, abandoned villages, and traveling tales. More

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Jigsaw puzzles, gun control, and thwarted revolutionaries. More

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A hacker market, an ancestral village, and a creepy love letter. More

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A boardinghouse, an alley, and a radical beach. More

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Bezoars, internet cafés, and an ancient curry recipe. More

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Barbenheimer, inherited furniture, and the train wrecks of the aughts. More

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Slave portraits, craft fetishism, and the Boxer Rebellion. More

Ruins at Pompeii, by Gabriel-Auguste Ancelet, 1853

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Socialism, supernaturalism, and a Bronze Age settlement. More

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Folk etymologies, guilty pleasures, and an ancient fruit pizza. More

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Daiquiris, heirloom plants, and phallic art. More

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Toxic boyfriends, cottagecore, and a wandering courtyard. More

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Fascist architecture, Ethiopian manuscripts, and stolen coins. More

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Flow states, hippo ranchers, and the Grand Canyon. More

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A haunted shrine, ancient pathogens, and love letters. More

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