August 30, 2017
The Vanishing Pugilist and the Poet
The marriage of twentieth-century avant-gardists Arthur Cravan and Mina Loy was blissfully happy—until his mysterious disappearance.
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Opinions and analysis from Lapham’s Quarterly writers and editors.
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August 25, 2017
The Rest Is History
A founding father’s marriage, a city’s disappearing treasures, and a state’s campaign against a butter substitute.
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August 18, 2017
The Rest Is History
Seven sisters sell hair tonic, New Yorkers protest Nazism, and Chinese laborers do the work of World War I.
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August 16, 2017
Into the Dusky, Rusky Forest
The extraordinary life and forgotten work of Dixie Willson.
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August 11, 2017
The Rest Is History
The Summer of Love, the smelly summer of 1858, and the summer(s) of the lunar eclipse.
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August 09, 2017
By Violence Dispossessed
Frances Coke’s marriage to John Villiers was a disaster—as was the war between her parents that preceded it.
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August 04, 2017
The Rest Is History
An eighteenth-century power couple, Italian tomb raiders, and a very long walk in 1569.
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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.