Roundtable
Opinions and analysis from Lapham’s Quarterly writers and editors.
August 3, 2025
August 22, 2018
How (or How Not) to Build a Labor Movement
Looking at the Pullman Strike and the political forces it stirred.
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August 21, 2018
The Triangulation of Empire
Before Michael Spender could engage in the high art of mapping the Himalayas, he had to go to the Alps.
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August 20, 2018
You’ve Got Mail
A relationship measured in books read—and the time found to write about them.
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August 17, 2018
The Rest Is History
Pie for a suffragist’s doubting husband, centaur costumers, and drunk and caffeinated history.
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August 16, 2018
How to Make Your Own Running Shoes
The author of Kicks explains the DIY beginnings of the world’s biggest shoe company.
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August 15, 2018
“There Are No Pianos to Be Had Here”
Frédéric Chopin and George Sand go to Majorca.
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August 14, 2018
Making Monuments What They Ought to Be
A preface to the new edition of Standing Soldiers, Kneeling Slaves.
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August 13, 2018
An Emily Dickinson Reading List
Imagining book recommendations from a life of letters.
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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.