Preview the April / May 2022 issue of Lapham’s Quarterly, Migration, which is shipping to subscribers soon. With original essays by Stephanie DeGooyer, Colin Grant, and Deirdre Mask; Voices in Time contributions by Al-Biruni, Ammianus Marcellinus, Hannah Arendt, Giordano Bruno, Cai Yan, Rachel Carson, Woody Guthrie, Langston Hughes, Mahalia Jackson, Meriwether Lewis, Julie Otsuka, Edward Said, Sonia Shah, Alfred Russel Wallace, and others; and art by Jacob Lawrence, Titian, and others.
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Cover | Hunkpapa Lakota painted leather shield, Joseph No Two Horns, c. 1885
Program Notes | Among the Contributors
Map | World in Motion
VOICES IN TIME
Setting Forth
2020: Setting Forth | Sonia Shah
1805: Fort Mandan | Meriwether Lewis
1928: Chicago | Mahalia Jackson
c. 1390: Southwark | Geoffrey Chaucer
1951: Everglades | Edwin Way Teale
1886: London | Joseph Conrad
1949: New York City | Langston Hughes
c. 1300 bc: Egypt | Book of Exodus
1974: Virginia | Annie Dillard
1754: Bridgetown | Olaudah Equiano
1916: Constantinople | Henry Morgenthau
1980: Havana | Reinaldo Arenas
1778: Kauai | James Cook
1941: Sargasso Sea | Rachel Carson
c. 1518: Tenochtitlán | Diego Durán
1964: Cairo | Malcolm X & Alex Haley
c. 1304: Italy | Dante Alighieri
1943: Cambridge, MA | Bernard De Voto
2014: Andes Mountains | Elizabeth Kolbert
1981: Berkeley, CA | Gary Soto
376: Thrace | Ammianus Marcellinus
1919: New York City | Marcus Garvey
c. 700: Medina | Urwah ibn al-Zubayr
c. 1900: Pacific Ocean | Julie Otsuka
On the Move
2020: Panama | Nadja Drost
1903: China | Ms. Chen
60 bc: Rome | Lucretius
1940: Marseille | Anna Seghers
c. 1890: Missouri | Jack Black
1935: Hudson Bay | Farley Mowat
1891: Boston | Solomon Schindler
c. 1188 bc: Egypt | Ramses III
1572: Peru | José de Acosta
1874: England | Alfred Newton & Alfred Russel Wallace
c. 1935: Route 66 | John Steinbeck
1764: Ferney | Voltaire
c. 200: Central Asia | Cai Yan
1976: Oxford | Richard Dawkins
1895: Michigan | Simon Pokagon
c. 1918: Lodz | Chava Rosenfarb
c. 1685: Newington Green | Charles Morton
c. 1950: Lahore | Saadat Hasan Manto
1377: Tiaret | Ibn Khaldun
1960: New York City | Denise Levertov
1807: Paris | Alexander von Humboldt & Aimé Bonpland
1975: Turin | Primo Levi
1029: Ghazna | Al-Biruni
Finding Refuge
2017: Bangalore | Anjali Vaidya
1923: Washington, DC | George Sutherland
1625: Paris | Hugo Grotius
1941: Portland, OR | Woody Guthrie
1856: St. Catharines | William Grose
1939: Atlantic Ocean | Julian Barnes
c. 1770: Orange County, NY | J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur
c. 1956: Gautscha | Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
1211: Zhongdu | Secret History of the Mongols
2000: New York City | Edward Said
c. 8: Tomis | Ovid
1943: New York City | Hannah Arendt
1901: Komoro | Shimazaki Toson
c. 1350: Ghuroub | Naguib Mahfouz
1999: Beijing | Mian Xiaohong
1890: New York City | Jacob Riis
1585: London | Giordano Bruno
c. 1980: Gulf of Thailand | Duc Huynh-Le
1836: Washington, DC | John Ross
1916: New York City | Sholem Aleichem
1690: Honshu | Matsuo Basho
FURTHER REMARKS
Essays
Wheel and Come Again | Colin Grant
The Right to Leave | Stephanie DeGooyer
Doctors Without Borders | Deirdre Mask
Departments
Conversations | Free State Project, Ghani, Chavez
Miscellany | Pauper Aliens, Bird Backpacks, Ruin Poetry
Glossary | Autochthon, Hobo Bag, Stowaway
Sources | Readings & Art