Roundtable
Opinions and analysis from Lapham’s Quarterly writers and editors.
August 4, 2025
July 15, 2020
Mithridates the Great Pharmacologist
The scholarly pursuits of a Hellenistic king.
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July 13, 2020
The Question of Monuments
Despite our long history of interrogating the memorial landscape, no movement has been able to dislodge it.
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July 10, 2020
The Rest Is History
Historically relevant snails, medieval smells, and pernicious fictional plants.
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July 08, 2020
Sufferings Beyond Our Expressing
On the historic correspondence of Thomas Jefferson and Richard O’Brien, an American imprisoned in Algiers.
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July 07, 2020
How Is a Disaster Made?
Studying Hurricane Katrina as a discrete event is studying a fiction.
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July 06, 2020
A Union’s Opening Credits
How the Screen Actors Guild built solidarity in Hollywood during the Great Depression.
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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.