Roundtable
Opinions and analysis from Lapham’s Quarterly writers and editors.
August 17, 2025
March 10, 2017
The Rest Is History
Mill workers on strike, sailors admiring icebergs, and queens in the bath.
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March 08, 2017
The Ambassadors’ Plot
The American abroad, from James to Highsmith and Ozick.
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March 03, 2017
The Rest Is History
A hotel on the moon, skydiving beavers, and the smells of 1906.
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February 24, 2017
The Rest Is History
Ghosts of the 1940s, childbirth in the 1910s, and pasta in the 1770s.
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February 21, 2017
An Immanent Humanist
Revisiting the life and work of the eccentric anthropologist Paul Radin.
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February 17, 2017
The Rest Is History
Proust: caught on film, laundry chutes: more interesting than you thought, and news: fake?
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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.