Roundtable
Opinions and analysis from Lapham’s Quarterly writers and editors.
September 30, 2025
September 17, 2020
Book of Revelation
On the power and privilege of the written word in the Middle Ages.
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September 16, 2020
The Deafness Diet
Purported hearing cures, from mail-order cons to prenatal vitamins.
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September 15, 2020
A True Friend
How Felix Moses, a Jewish Confederate soldier, was recast in a Lost Cause myth.
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September 11, 2020
The Rest Is History
Post offices, over a hundred mammoth skeletons, and endless chewing.
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September 09, 2020
The Magical Art of Selling Soap
The trends and tactics of the nineteenth-century wellness industry.
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September 04, 2020
The Rest Is History
Magical ancient texts, elections, and the earliest anatomists.
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September 02, 2020
Fainter Become My Hopes
A new translation of a fragment of Simonides’ poetry.
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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.
Revolutionary Lovebirds
2023:
Writers on strike search for romance at the picket line.
c. 1945:
Young communists engage in party matchmaking.