September 09, 2020
The Magical Art of Selling Soap
The trends and tactics of the nineteenth-century wellness industry.
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Opinions and analysis from Lapham’s Quarterly writers and editors.
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September 04, 2020
The Rest Is History
Magical ancient texts, elections, and the earliest anatomists.
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September 02, 2020
Fainter Become My Hopes
A new translation of a fragment of Simonides’ poetry.
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August 26, 2020
Freedom from Tyranny
How a cult was built around a political ideal in Ancient Greece.
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August 24, 2020
The Art of Upsetting People
Jonathan Swift and the Marquis de Sade, patron saints of extremism.
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August 17, 2020
The Disaster Poet
On William McGonagall, the worst famous poet in the English language.
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August 14, 2020
The Rest Is History
Prehistoric banana travel, quiet tennis courts, and meat ice cream.
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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.