September 06, 2016
A Conversation on Class
On education as class migration, culture as social capital, and the joys of fried food.
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Opinions and analysis from Lapham’s Quarterly writers and editors.
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September 02, 2016
The Rest Is History
Judging the fashions of female politicians, revisiting a famous muse, and searching for history in a swamp.
Read MoreAugust 26, 2016
The Rest Is History
Women in urban space, Nero in art, and cats in the news.
Read MoreAugust 19, 2016
The Rest Is History
Snakes in New England, women in the Olympics, and Gertrude Stein in the children’s section.
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August 16, 2016
“A Good Story, if I Can Remember It”
Tracking down the memories of anti-apartheid writer and editor Sylvester Stein.
Read MoreAugust 12, 2016
The Rest Is History
Electrical currents and fertility, man-made natural wonders, and a Shakespearean art form in America.
Read MoreAugust 05, 2016
The Rest Is History
Spray food, a meeting of literary legends, and a very smelly flower.
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July 29, 2016
The Rest Is History
Edith Wharton’s vanishing New York, Boris Johnson’s Shakespeare, and 2016’s competition for the worst year ever.
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August 07, 2023
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.
May 22, 2023
Revolutionary Lovebirds
2023:
Writers on strike search for romance at the picket line.
c. 1945:
Young communists engage in party matchmaking.