The Summer 2020 issue of Lapham’s Quarterly, Epidemic, is now available. With original essays by Mike Jay, Travis Chi Wing Lau, and Francine Prose; Voices in Time contributions by Ai Fen, S. Josephine Baker, Mikhail Bulgakov, Willa Cather, Daniel Defoe, Ibn al-Wardi, William Langland, Lucretius, Alessandro Manzoni, Gene Tierney, Barbara Tuchman, David Wojnarowicz, and others; and art by Francisco Goya, Paul Klee, Georges Seurat, and others.
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Cover | Saint Martin Brings a Dead Man to Life, Flemish roundel, c. 1430
Program Notes | Among the Contributors
Map | The Name Blame Game
Preamble | Francine Prose, Signs and Wonders
VOICES IN TIME
Outbreak
2019: Wuhan | Ai Fen
430 bc: Athens | Lucretius
c. 1844: Manchester | Friedrich Engels
1634: Plymouth Colony | William Bradford
2017: Durham, CT | James C. Scott
1348: Aleppo | Ibn al-Wardi
1665: London | Samuel Pepys
1520: Iximche | Annals of the Kaqchikel
2013: San Francisco | Jack London
1792: Zhaozhou | Shi Daonan
1918: Atlantic Ocean | Willa Cather
1666: Blazing World | Margaret Cavendish
1954: Thalia, TX | Larry McMurtry
2015: Geneva | World Health Organization
1962: Bukoba | A.M. Rankin & P.J. Philip
1630: Milan | Alessandro Manzoni
2020: West Liberty, OH | West Liberty First Church of God
1918: Delhi | Ahmed Ali
1592: Croydon | Thomas Nashe
1935: Boston | Hans Zinsser
2006: Zambia | Namwali Serpell
c 1378: Worcestershire | William Langland
1520: Tenochtitlán | Bernardino de Sahagún
2094: Windsor | Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
1936: Katzie | Old Pierre
c. 77: Rome | Pliny the Elder
1911: Venice | Thomas Mann
c. 1295: Egypt | Al-Nuwayri
Containment
2014: Suakoko | Sheri Fink
1631: Monte Lupo | Carlo M. Cipolla
1832: Paris | Heinrich Heine
1983: New York City | Richard Berkowitz & Michael Callen
1869: London | Ladies’ National Association
c. 27 bc: Rome | Vitruvius
1665: London | Daniel Defoe
2015: Ithaca, NY | Zombie Epidemiology Study
1815: Naples | Jean-Antoine-François Ozanam
1724: Tagami | Morita Morimasa
1918: Virginia | Ellen Bryant Voigt
c. 1150: Cornwall | Béroul
1989: Reston, VA | Richard Preston
1820: Naples | John Keats
c. 30 bc: Rome | Virgil
1892: New York City | Harper’s Weekly
1374: Milan | Bernabò Visconti
1789: Bedfordshire | John Howard
c. 1360: Morocco | Ibn al-Khatib
1824: London | Charles Maclean
1321: France | Carlo Ginzburg
1893: Jeddah | Dr. Olschanietzki
1939: Princeton, NJ | S. Josephine Baker
c. 1400: Milan | Dom Theophilus of Milan
Recovery
2020: Los Angeles | Karl Taro Greenfeld
c. 30: Galilee | Gospel According to Mark
c. 1728: England | Voltaire
1912: Wyandotte, OK | Catherine Johnson
1937: Prague | Karel Čapek
c. 1351: Europe | Barbara Tuchman
c. 1816: Mount Kugami | Ryokan
1992: New York City | David Wojnarowicz
c. 1100 bc: India | Atharvaveda
1979: Houston | Gene Tierney
1349: London | Ordinance of Laborers
1917: Smolensk | Mikhail Bulgakov
1662: London | John Graunt
1797: New York City | Noah Webster
652: Guanzhong | Sun Simiao
c. 1350: Norfolk | Sylvia Townsend Warner
1999: Harefield | Grey Gowrie
c. 300 bc: China | Yellow Emperor’s Classic of Internal Medicine
2003: Johannesburg | Adam Levin
1624: London | John Donne
1972: New Haven, CT | Lewis Thomas
1497: Tuscany | George Eliot
c. 1650: China | Ledger of Merit and Demerit
1918: Denver | Katherine Anne Porter
FURTHER REMARKS
Essays
The Virus and the Martians | Mike Jay
What Preparations Are Due? | Travis Chi Wing Lau
Departments
Conversations | Johnson, Woolf, Martineau
Miscellany | Sick Bathing, Puppy Sacrifice, Sea-Bass Toss
Glossary | Poison King, Quaranteen, Sneeze Guard
Sources | Readings & Art