Roundtable
Opinions and analysis from Lapham’s Quarterly writers and editors.
June 27, 2025
February 03, 2023
The Rest Is History
The ancient skeptics, the memory of water, and treasures in a bathhouse drain.
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February 01, 2023
Dictating the Desert
Plants and settlers take root in a new mythology of Arizona.
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January 27, 2023
The Rest Is History
A pigeon problem, respecting mummies, and the pickup truck.
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January 25, 2023
The First Ordinary Woman in English Literature
The life and legacy of the Wife of Bath.
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January 20, 2023
The Rest Is History
Mammoth bones, a plant-based pith helmet, and sun-dried tomatoes.
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January 18, 2023
The Medieval Belly Fat Diet
Want to be called beautiful by a twelfth-century writer? Eat sweets and be rich.
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August 07, 2023
Monumental Mistakes
2023:
Fitness instructor carves his girlfriend’s name into the Colosseum.
c. 1850:
Thompson of Sunderland makes his mark on Pompey’s pillar.
May 22, 2023
Revolutionary Lovebirds
2023:
Writers on strike search for romance at the picket line.
c. 1945:
Young communists engage in party matchmaking.