Roundtable
Opinions and analysis from Lapham’s Quarterly writers and editors.
June 19, 2025
June 12, 2023
National Treasure
How the tea utensils used by early modern practitioners of chanoyu became a tool of Japanese nationalism.
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June 09, 2023
The Rest Is History
Fascist architecture, Ethiopian manuscripts, and stolen coins.
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June 08, 2023
She Measures the Heavens and Outlines the Earth
Enheduanna and the night sky.
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June 07, 2023
The Oldest Maps in the World
On the marks ancient people left on rocks and walls.
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May 31, 2023
The Prehistory of Glass Windows
Making windows out of wood and stone in antiquity.
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May 26, 2023
The Rest Is History
The teachings of Epictetus, hair removal, and nepo babies.
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May 24, 2023
Time and the Old Women
The legacy and context of Quinten Massys’ An Old Woman.
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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.