Roundtable
Opinions and analysis from Lapham’s Quarterly writers and editors.
July 25, 2025
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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July 02, 2020
The Urban Gilgamesh
What the earliest epic tells us about living in an ancient city.
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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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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.