Roundtable
Opinions and analysis from Lapham’s Quarterly writers and editors.
May 30, 2025
March 06, 2019
How Dorothy Parker and Marian Anderson Got Work Done
Step one: start working. Or procrastinate, if you’re Parker.
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March 05, 2019
Meet L.E.L.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon was a famous poet who courted rumor, but not the canon, after her death.
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March 04, 2019
The Sights and Sounds of Night
The moon and sleep in history, as seen in film and music.
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March 01, 2019
The Rest Is History
Glass caskets, illuminated manuscripts, and people reading in art.
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February 21, 2019
A Frederick Douglass Reading List
Reading recommendations from a lifelong education.
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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.