Roundtable
Opinions and analysis from Lapham’s Quarterly writers and editors.
August 16, 2025
October 15, 2021
The Rest Is History
Ancient flow, the paper dress, and declaring victory.
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October 14, 2021
Not Belonging to the World
Hannah Arendt holds firm during the McCarthy era.
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October 13, 2021
Save the Scribe
On the blessed purpose of the women who worked with medieval manuscripts.
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October 08, 2021
The Rest Is History
A spirit mirror, a toilet goddess, and squabbling sibling planets.
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October 06, 2021
Whose Homer Is It Anyway?
Creating a composite character out of depictions of the ancient poet.
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October 05, 2021
The Artist Paints Herself
Elisabetta Sirani, Sofonisba Anguissola, and Rosalba Carriera through the ages.
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October 04, 2021
As Far from Heaven as Possible
How Henry Wadsworth Longfellow interpreted Reconstruction by translating Dante.
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October 01, 2021
The Rest Is History
Volcano-induced climate change, ancient footprints, and the search for sea monsters.
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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.