Roundtable
Opinions and analysis from Lapham’s Quarterly writers and editors.
July 19, 2025
January 19, 2011
House Hunters
Visiting an author’s home is a curious endeavor. What do we expect from these literary pilgrimages?
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December 13, 2010
Rome’s Nether Regions
Building and updating Rome’s subway is a painstaking process as it traverses ancient and hallowed ground.
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December 07, 2010
Ten Megacities of the Near Future
The projected megacities of the future are growing at an alarming rate, many of them in the world most conflicted regions.
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December 06, 2010
San Francisco, Infinite City
The invisible geographies of San Francisco are revealed in this new collection of maps and essays about that city.
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November 15, 2010
Skyscrapers of the Dead
While vertical cemeteries may seem like a radical proposition to relieve urban areas, they were first suggested by nineteenth-century cemetery reformers.
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November 09, 2010
The Renaissance of City-States
Renaissance Italy was a patchwork of city-states, each controlled with varying degrees of tyranny and liberty.
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November 01, 2010
China’s Instant Cities, Thirty Years On
When China began aggressive economic and urban development in the 1980s, the character of its cities changed forever.
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October 04, 2010
The Master Architect
In 1974 Albert Speer recalled Hitler’s tour of the great European cities, and the Führer’s plan to reshape Berlin as his empire’s new Rome.
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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.