Roundtable
Opinions and analysis from Lapham’s Quarterly writers and editors.
July 30, 2025
July 15, 2019
Rebuilding Jane Austen’s Library
What can we learn when imagining the reading habits of beloved writers?
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July 12, 2019
The Rest Is History
Medieval lions, Blubber Town, and remains under the dance floor.
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July 10, 2019
A Nineteenth-Century Power Couple in Hyderabad
Meet Mehdi Hasan and Ellen Donnelly.
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July 05, 2019
The Rest Is History
A scandalous “Star-Spangled Banner” episode, pirate math, and internet Egyptology.
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July 03, 2019
Sovereign Lands
How cattle kingdoms became public land in southeastern Oregon.
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July 01, 2019
The Afterlife of Fanny Kemble’s Journal
On the influence and shortcomings of a nineteenth-century actress’ observations of the antebellum south.
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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.