December 08, 2022
Everlasting Monuments of the Pen
Historians should scorn death and preserve the truth.
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Opinions and analysis from Lapham’s Quarterly writers and editors.
July 29, 2025
December 07, 2022
It Belongs in a Museum
Isabella Stewart Gardner builds a place to house her art.
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December 02, 2022
The Rest Is History
Memory work, Syrian cassette tapes, and the ghost of the Paris Commune.
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November 30, 2022
Reading the Horizon
Predicting a hurricane in nineteenth-century South Carolina.
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November 28, 2022
A Jorge Luis Borges Reading List
Recommendations from a life of lectures and essays.
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November 25, 2022
The Rest Is History
Critical distance, a spider monkey, and a series of murders and scandals in sixteenth-century Bavaria.
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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.