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.
Lewis Lapham talks with Ian Mortimer about the past millennium of human innovation. More
Lewis H. Lapham talks with the author of The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America. More
Lewis H. Lapham talks with Catherine Nixey, author of The Darkening Age: The Christian Destruction of the Classical World. More
Lewis H. Lapham talks with Steven Ujifusa, author of Barons of the Sea: And Their Race to Build the World’s Fastest Clipper Ship. More
Lewis H. Lapham speaks with the author of God and Mammon: Chronicles of American Money. More
Lewis Lapham talks with Kory Stamper, lexicographer at Merriam-Webster and the author of Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries. More
