February 12, 2021
The Rest Is History
A new continent, sounds from a very old seashell, and the possibilities of a twenty-first-century Federal Writers’ Project.
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Opinions and analysis from Lapham’s Quarterly writers and editors.
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February 10, 2021
Those Who Work
What you can learn about medieval Europe if you focus on peasants.
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February 05, 2021
The Rest Is History
Chair lit, a medieval pen-twister, and an unusual mud-wrapped mummy.
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February 03, 2021
An Enterprise of Solid Gold
On the lucrative business of pirating Voltaire in eighteenth-century Europe.
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January 29, 2021
The Rest Is History
Canine migration patterns, thumb dexterity, and supposedly objective historians.
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January 27, 2021
The Multitude of Books
Complaints about the number of books in circulation started as soon as printing was invented.
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January 26, 2021
Revolutionizing Bureaucracy
The scene in Angoulême, a backwater in French Revolutionary politics.
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January 25, 2021
Finding an Audience
On the laws that kept Saadat Hasan Manto’s stories—and the work of his successors—out of readers’ reach.
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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.