Roundtable
Opinions and analysis from Lapham’s Quarterly writers and editors.
September 15, 2025
July 28, 2017
The Rest Is History
Lady engineers, citrus fruits as status symbols, and using oboe as a verb.
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July 26, 2017
A Song of Ice and Fire
World Ice Theory and the supernatural imaginary of the Third Reich.
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July 21, 2017
The Rest Is History
Ancient prosthetics, a suppressed Nazi plot, and the story of America’s rich uncle.
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July 14, 2017
The Rest Is History
Brief histories of Prospect Park, anti-Catholic hysteria, and taxidermy.
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July 10, 2017
Lewis Lapham Reads “Petrified Forest”
Listen to the preamble to Fear, the Summer 2017 issue of Lapham’s Quarterly.
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July 07, 2017
The Rest Is History
A king’s jewelry, thousand-year-old concrete, and P.T. Barnum’s lasting legacy.
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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.