Roundtable
Opinions and analysis from Lapham’s Quarterly writers and editors.
June 29, 2025
December 12, 2017
Enter States of Mind
The table of contents for our tenth-anniversary issue.
Read MoreDecember 08, 2017
The Rest Is History
Wildfires, metaphorical blue marbles, and mixing paint with some spit.
Read MoreDecember 06, 2017
Chain Reaction
Behind the scenes of Enrico Fermi’s Nobel Prize in Physics.
Read MoreDecember 04, 2017
Julius Caesar’s Empty Audience
Augustus’ propaganda promised a better world. What did Caesar’s offer?
Read MoreDecember 01, 2017
The Rest Is History
Lizard-like dinosaur paintings, the butt fumble, and immersing yourself in Watergate.
Read MoreNovember 29, 2017
Paradise Lost
Aaron Burr spoke of far-flung fortune, and then the Blennerhassetts’ West Virginia Eden went up in flames.
Read MoreNovember 24, 2017
The Rest Is History
Iron lungs, much-needed reckonings, and miens “like a full moon.”
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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.