August 07, 2023
Man of the People
The history and context of Aleksandr Afanasev’s obscene Russian folktales.
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Opinions and analysis from Lapham’s Quarterly writers and editors.
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Helen of Troy Real—Not a Myth
Reimagining Helen’s story in early Hollywood.
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July 26, 2023
One Can Scarcely Help Clarifying Him
On Fyodor Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov.
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July 24, 2023
Wake Up and Smell the Coffee
Meet the feuding twin sisters who popularized the American advice column.
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July 21, 2023
The Rest Is History
Barbenheimer, inherited furniture, and the train wrecks of the aughts.
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July 19, 2023
A Surprising Dearth of Spectacled Bears
Real and legendary bears in pre-Columbian South America.
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July 17, 2023
A Likely Story Indeed
On Lewis Carroll’s photographic creation of Alice Liddell.
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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.