July 02, 2020
The Urban Gilgamesh
What the earliest epic tells us about living in an ancient city.
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Opinions and analysis from Lapham’s Quarterly writers and editors.
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July 01, 2020
A Campaign of Forced Self-Deportation
The history of anti-Chinese violence in Truckee, California, is as old as the town itself.
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June 30, 2020
Real-Life Rumpelstiltskin
On an alchemist who failed to make gold but still made history in porcelain.
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June 29, 2020
The Indebted Dead
Tracing the history of the Grateful Dead folktale and the evolving obligations of being alive.
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June 26, 2020
The Rest Is History
Statues, maps of poverty, and the biodiversity of the Amazon.
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June 25, 2020
America Is Waiting to Be Awakened
A NAACP investigator reports on the Tulsa Race Massacre.
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June 24, 2020
A World Without Clouds
On early attempts to make photographs look more like the world.
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June 22, 2020
A Space Where the Soul Could Go to Rest
On the life and work of Jean-Michel Frank.
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June 19, 2020
The Rest Is History
Powerful phrases, prehistoric creativity, and the origins of quarantine.
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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.