September 20, 2023
The Only Monarch Left in Rome
On the pope’s waning political influence in Mussolini’s Italy.
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September 15, 2023
A massacre of forest protectors, an apocalypse-proof building, and a Van Gogh in an Ikea bag.
Read MoreSeptember 15, 2023
How English words evolved on a foreign continent.
Read MoreSeptember 13, 2023
Paul W. Morris joins Lapham’s Quarterly and the American Agora Foundation.
Read MoreSeptember 11, 2023
How to raise a child with taste in eighteenth-century Britain.
Read MoreSeptember 08, 2023
A plague film, a catchy song, and a Chinese dissident.
Read MoreSeptember 06, 2023
On the fictional—or not-so-fictional—narrator of In Search of Lost Time.
Read MoreSeptember 01, 2023
Systems novels, lessons for organizers, and the emerging terrain of struggle.
Read MoreAugust 30, 2023
The founding and funding of conservative media on college campuses in the 1960s.
Read MoreAugust 25, 2023
Victorian murders, abandoned villages, and traveling tales.
Read More2023:
Fitness instructor carves his girlfriend’s name into the Colosseum.
c. 1850:
Thompson of Sunderland makes his mark on Pompey’s pillar.
2023:
Writers on strike search for romance at the picket line.
c. 1945:
Young communists engage in party matchmaking.