April 17, 2023
Right Living, Right Acting, and Right Thinking
How Black women used exercise to achieve civic goals in the late nineteenth century.
Read MoreRoundtable
Opinions and analysis from Lapham’s Quarterly writers and editors.
August 23, 2025
April 14, 2023
The Rest Is History
Spring cleaning, the Comstock Act, and an ancient ball game.
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April 12, 2023
The Rules of the Games in Tudor England
How to play mumble-the-peg, mumchance, and hurling to the country.
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April 12, 2023
Curtis White in Conversation with Lewis H. Lapham
A discussion celebrating our Freedom issue.
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April 10, 2023
Happy Endings
Correspondence tips from the author of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.
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April 07, 2023
The Rest Is History
Movies, trade, and direct evidence of people taking hallucinogenic drugs.
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April 03, 2023
Analysis Does Cramp the Painter
How the artistic partnership of Lady Frieda Harris and Aleister Crowley led to the creation of the Thoth Tarot.
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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.