Roundtable

Falling into Friendship

The table of contents for our new issue.

By Lapham’s Quarterly

Wednesday, August 04, 2021

The new issue of Lapham’s Quarterly, Friendship, is now available. With original essays by B.D. McClay and Francine Prose; Voices in Time contributions by Du Fu, Vivian Gornick, Jane Jacobs, Madame de La Fayette, C.S. Lewis, Amin Maalouf, Nelson Mandela, Mary McCarthy, Michel de Montaigne, Grace Paley, George Sand, Seneca, and others; and art by Gertrude Abercrombie, Jean-Honoré Fragonard, and others.

Subscribe now and receive Friendship as your first issue.

Cover of Friendship issue of Lapham’s Quarterly

Cover | Terracotta figurine of girls playing a game, Greek, late fourth or early third century bc
Program Notes | Among the Contributors
Map | Friends, Romans, Countrymen
Preamble | Francine Prose, That Gummy Jungle

VOICES IN TIME
Assets
2021: Chicago | Captain Awkward
1616: London | Ben Jonson
1839: Paris | Gustave Flaubert
c. 330 bc: Athens | Aristotle
1840: Paris | Alexis de Tocqueville
c. 1966: Robben Island | Nelson Mandela
1878: London | Arthur Conan Doyle
c. 500 bc: China | Classic of Poetry
1558: Paris | Madame de La Fayette
1872: Downe | Charles Darwin
1605: Florence | Miguel de Cervantes
1960: Oxford | C.S. Lewis
c. 1180: Troyes | Chrétien de Troyes
1842: Hoddesdon | Sarah Stickney Ellis
c. 1972: Kampala | Dinaw Mengestu
c. 1862: Amherst | Emily Dickinson
1625: London | Francis Bacon
1851: New Bedford, MA | Herman Melville
2019: Portland, OR | Darius Kazemi
1934: Kyzyl Kaiyn | Mukhamet Shayakhmetov
c. 720 bc: Qi | Sima Qian
c. 62: Italy | Seneca
1750: London | Eliza Haywood
1931: Santa Monica, CA | Salka Viertel
c. 1050: Rhineland | Cambridge Songs
1943: Paris | Simone de Beauvoir

Liabilities
2017: Matsudo | Norimitsu Onishi
1831: Beccles | Edward FitzGerald
c. 430 bc: Athens | William Shakespeare
1758: London | Samuel Johnson
1939: New York City | Mary McCarthy
838: Luoyang | Bai Juyi
1511: London | Erasmus
1961: New York City | Jane Jacobs
c. 1330: Kyoto | Yoshida Kenko
2012: New York City | Tim Kreider
c. 375: Tagaste | Saint Augustine
1987: New York City | Deborah Eisenberg
1674: London | William Wycherley
1965: Weston, MA | Anne Sexton
c. 1166: Rievaulx | Saint Aelred of Rievaulx
2009: Buenos Aires | Mariana Enriquez
1886: London | Karl Pearson
c. 1184 bc: Troy | Homer
1997: Texas | Rick Bass
1565: Ávila | Saint Teresa of Ávila
c. 1905: London | Virginia Woolf
c. 1022: Xàtiva | Ibn Hazm
c. 60: Rome | Gaius Petronius Arbiter
2018: Oakland | Tommy Orange
1957: London | Doris Lessing
c. 1552: Orléans | Étienne de La Boétie
c. 1969: Bideford | Celia Paul
1878: Bougival | Ivan Turgenev
1976: Port of Spain | Derek Walcott

Equity
2015: New York City | Vivian Gornick
60 bc: Rome | Cicero
c. 1574: Aquitaine | Michel de Montaigne
c. 1925: London | Vera Brittain
1860: Paris | Émile Zola
c. 759: Huazhou | Du Fu
c. 1840: Mississippi River | Mark Twain
1902: Bromley | Peter Kropotkin
1641: Paris | Madeleine de Scudéry
c. 2700 bc: Uruk | Epic of Gilgamesh
1989: New York City | Larry Kramer
1759: Yorkshire | Laurence Sterne
1855: Nohant | George Sand
1968: London | Kamala Markandaya
2001: Beirut | Amin Maalouf
1916: Le Transloy | Sidney Rogerson
1751: Paris | Claude Yvon
c. 1960: Antigua | Jamaica Kincaid
1843: Weybridge, VT | William Cullen Bryant
1709: London | Alexander Pope
c. 1049: Japan | Lady Sarashina
The Future: United States | Kazuo Ishiguro
1891: Camden, NJ | Walt Whitman
1911: Prague | Franz Kafka
1840: Jamaica Plain, MA | Margaret Fuller
1917: England | Robert Graves
c. 1775: Königsberg | Immanuel Kant
1965: New York City | Grace Paley
1786: Paris | Thomas Jefferson

FURTHER REMARKS
Essays
Summer, Glorious Summer! | B.D. McClay

Departments
Conversations | Reddit, Shelley, Yuan
Miscellany | Fox Burial, Cheerleader Effect, Loving Numbers
Glossary | Aceboy, Friend Indian, Tovarich
Sources | Readings & Art