Roundtable
Opinions and analysis from Lapham’s Quarterly writers and editors.
June 27, 2025
November 21, 2022
Choice Reading
Nineteenth-century New York City was filled with books, bibliophilia, and marginalia.
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November 18, 2022
The Rest Is History
Living in caves, the American chestnut, and the preferred doneness of fish.
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November 16, 2022
A Fresh Twist to a Knot
Spending a year with Mary Wollstonecraft and William Godwin.
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November 11, 2022
My Whole Life Is Empty Without You
A necessarily abridged perspective of place in Hawai‘i.
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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.