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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Opinions and analysis from Lapham’s Quarterly writers and editors.
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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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April 01, 2022
The Rest Is History
Skull surgery, dictionaries, and a robot dog at Pompeii.
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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.