August 24, 2021
No Thanks to the Academy
Why isn’t there an English Academy? Blame the plague.
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Opinions and analysis from Lapham’s Quarterly writers and editors.
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August 18, 2021
Monumental Timekeepers
Public time has been on the march for thousands of years.
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August 16, 2021
Glossary: Friendship
From aceboy to wingman, the language of kindly relations.
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August 13, 2021
The Rest Is History
Ancient wellness, opinions concerning female exercise, and disaster cuisine.
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August 06, 2021
The Rest Is History
Cicadas, regrettable tattoos, and math on an ancient tablet.
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August 03, 2021
Contribute Either to Usefulness or Delight
On the wealthy seventeenth-century botanists who filled their gardens with plants from around the world.
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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.