July 12, 2018
Who Could Ever Love the River Now?
Photographs of the history of the water of Flint—and what is left out.
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Opinions and analysis from Lapham’s Quarterly writers and editors.
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July 11, 2018
What Lies Beneath Lake Oahe
Looking at the past from the shores of Standing Rock.
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July 04, 2018
The Literary Instigator of the American Resistance
Thomas Paine writes a letter.
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July 03, 2018
Armani in America
Looking back on American Gigolo, a love story about a wardrobe.
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Monumental Mistakes
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Fitness instructor carves his girlfriend’s name into the Colosseum.
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Thompson of Sunderland makes his mark on Pompey’s pillar.
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Revolutionary Lovebirds
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Writers on strike search for romance at the picket line.
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Young communists engage in party matchmaking.