Roundtable
Opinions and analysis from Lapham’s Quarterly writers and editors.
June 26, 2025
May 11, 2020
The Haunting of Drums and Shadows
On the stories and landscapes the Federal Writers’ Project left unexplored.
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May 08, 2020
The Rest Is History
A teenage mummy, the Tokyo Olympics, and ancient tourists.
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May 05, 2020
The Consequential Last Act of Leon Czolgosz
And the last hours of President William McKinley.
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April 30, 2020
The Omnibus’ Funeral
A new book remembers the heyday of an early form of Parisian mass transit.
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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.