Roundtable
Opinions and analysis from Lapham’s Quarterly writers and editors.
June 8, 2025
September 11, 2019
The Brutality of Ovid
A conversation on sex, violence, and power in the Metamorphoses.
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September 10, 2019
Thinking, Thinking, Looking and Looking
On Gordon Parks’ camera and what it saw.
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September 06, 2019
The Rest Is History
A mysterious old murder, abounding eggs, and surprisingly humanlike fingers.
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September 04, 2019
Please, My Digital Archive. It’s Very Sick.
Our past on the internet is disappearing before we can make it history.
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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.