November 15, 2021
Are You My Mother Tongue?
On the generations of linguists who searched for Muttersprache’s origin story.
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Opinions and analysis from Lapham’s Quarterly writers and editors.
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November 12, 2021
The Rest Is History
Making drinks, meeting a lover across a supposed divide, and laughing during a plague.
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November 08, 2021
It’s Time for Some Game Theory
Experiencing history in Assassin’s Creed.
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November 05, 2021
The Rest Is History
Back an hour, behind a recipe, and the wrong side of a slice of history.
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October 29, 2021
The Rest Is History
Amazingly preserved mummies, pumpkin spice, and earls sitting in turrets.
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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.