April 03, 2015
Passing Through
Nella Larsen made a career of not quite belonging—and after two successful novels and a failed marriage, the writer vanished for good.
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Opinions and analysis from Lapham’s Quarterly writers and editors.
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March 19, 2015
Seeking Asylum, Getting the Story
An interview with journalist Mattathias Schwartz, whose writing appears in the Spring 2015 issue, Foreigners.
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March 18, 2015
A Blood-Thirsty Gentleman
Bram Stoker’s Dracula terrorized a nation with its greatest fear—the foreigner who can transform into an Englishman.
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March 11, 2015
The Importance of Being Wilde
Before Oscar Wilde wrote anything of note, he traveled around America like a rock star.
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February 17, 2015
Stranger in a Strange Land
In 1918, weeks after the Armistice, a young Canadian soldier is thrown among the ordinary people of a defeated Germany.
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February 11, 2015
The Life and Death of Mr. Basketball
Elliott Van Zandt taught former Italian Fascists the art of American basketball and transformed a sport for the nation.
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January 14, 2015
Friends and Lovers, Lords and Ladies
The lovers of Downton Abbey become more passionate with age.
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January 09, 2015
A Coronation to Remember
In Episodes 6 and 7 of Marco Polo, the women of the Mongol and Song empires take center stage.
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January 07, 2015
Assassinations, Attempted and Achieved
Episodes four and five of Marco Polo are filled with intrigue—but what of the achievements of the real Kublai Khan?
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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.