Roundtable
Opinions and analysis from Lapham’s Quarterly writers and editors.
July 30, 2025
December 10, 2021
The Rest Is History
Remodeling our fundamental national narrative, rethinking silent film, and fake bumps.
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December 09, 2021
Recovering from the Plague
Did Girolamo Mercuriale misdiagnose a plague in sixteenth-century Venice?
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December 07, 2021
A Dark Cloud over Enjoyment
Refusing myths of joy and pain in slave narratives.
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November 29, 2021
Learning Sixteenth-Century Business Jargon
Want to become a merchant? Master a language or two first.
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November 26, 2021
The Rest Is History
Tree fashion, a copy of the U.S. Constitution, and George Sand in Paris.
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November 24, 2021
A Utopia of Useful Things
On the nineteenth-century artists and thinkers who pictured a future of abundance powered by steam.
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November 22, 2021
The Comforts of a Single State
Thomas Jefferson imagines an unequal gender utopia.
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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.