Roundtable
Opinions and analysis from Lapham’s Quarterly writers and editors.
June 13, 2025
April 22, 2022
The Rest Is History
The evolution of the disposable razor, the invention of the sports bra, and the collective groan of archivists everywhere.
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April 20, 2022
Seizing the Means of Audio Production
In the 1980s the Egyptian government was determined to stop the spread of the “vulgar” cassette.
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April 15, 2022
The Rest Is History
Little Ukraine, Monsieur Pomme de Terre, and the history of an emotion.
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April 13, 2022
Reconciliation Process
When Charles Sumner died in 1874, a bill he had sponsored two years earlier threatened to overshadow his legacy.
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April 11, 2022
Scene Stealer
Aldous Huxley insisted that Crome Yellow was fiction. Ottoline Morrell disagreed.
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April 08, 2022
The Rest Is History
A triceratops named Big John, artistic scents, and the unsettling moral outlook of tenth-century Iceland.
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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.