Roundtable
Opinions and analysis from Lapham’s Quarterly writers and editors.
July 18, 2025
November 20, 2019
Marriage (Market Price)
A history of using daughters as currency, from ancient Greece to the Stuart monarchy.
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November 19, 2019
Welcome to Baker Street
How Sherlock Holmes’ home went from a fictional setting to a reality for readers.
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November 18, 2019
Finding the Words to Describe a Disaster
How scientists and writers responded to the Lisbon earthquake in 1755.
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November 15, 2019
The Rest Is History
X-rays, ancient footprints, and Elizabeth Bishop’s house.
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November 12, 2019
Eventually, Everyone Needs to Urinate
On the medieval era’s obsession with unknowable innards.
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November 11, 2019
A Collegial Atmosphere
On the possibilities that a group of British writers found on campus.
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November 08, 2019
The Rest Is History
On books worth revisiting, a priestess of pure fire, and the Berlin Wall.
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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.