The Summer 2019 issue of Lapham’s Quarterly, Happiness, is now on newsstands. With original essays by Maddy Crowell, Henry Freedland, Jay Griffiths, and David Wootton; Voices in Time contributions by Hannah Arendt, Margaret Atwood, Saint Augustine, Matsuo Basho, Dante Alighieri, Samuel Johnson, Alice Munro, Mary Oliver, Dorothy Parker, Vita Sackville-West, Benedict de Spinoza, Mark Twain, and others; and art by Hieronymus Bosch, Yamamoto Masao, and others.
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INTRODUCTORY
Cover | Mesoamerican “smiling figure,” Mexico, seventh or eighth century
Program Notes | Among the Contributors
Map | Happy Places
Preamble | David Wootton, The Impossible Dream
VOICES IN TIME
Contentment
2016: Washington, DC | Julie Beck
1569: Tlatelolco | Bernardino de Sahagún
1759: Abyssinia | Samuel Johnson
58: Rome | Seneca
1898: Bakumovka | Anton Chekhov
c. 700: India | Shantideva
1927: New York City | Dorothy Parker
c. 300 bc: Song | Zhuangzi
1942: Oran | Albert Camus
1977: San Francisco | John Perry Barlow
1590: Eseldorf | Mark Twain
1970: Ojai, CA | Jiddu Krishnamurti
1939: Rio de Janeiro | Rachel de Queiroz
c. 1475: Naples | Giovanni Pontano
1661: The Hague | Benedict de Spinoza
2005: Amsterdam | Dubravka Ugrešić
1851: Frankfurt | Arthur Schopenhauer
1999: United States | Ray Bradbury
1960: New York City | Hannah Arendt
390 bc: Athens | Aristophanes
1963: Berkeley | Betty Friedan
1621: Oxford | Robert Burton
1941: Hollywood | Preston Sturges
2014: London | William Davies
1991: Kent | Alex Comfort
1881: Sweden | Alice Munro
1795: Copenhagen | Mary Wollstonecraft
Satisfaction
2018: New Haven, CT | Adam Sternbergh
1995: Wilmot, NH | Jane Kenyon
c. 380 bc: Athens | Plato
1983: Toronto | Margaret Atwood
1433: Kaifeng | Zhu Youdun
c. 1658: Paris | Blaise Pascal
1945: Italy | Ann Bridge
1872: Downe | Charles Darwin
c. 1572: Aquitaine | Michel de Montaigne
1817: London | Jeremy Bentham
c. 524: Pavia | Boethius
1964: Oxford | J.R.R. Tolkien
1984: London | John Berger
1770: Paris | Denis Diderot
c. 1746: Burgundy | Émilie du Châtelet
c. 300 bc: Athens | Epicurus
c. 1461: Paris | François Villon
1882: Genoa | Friedrich Nietzsche
1996: Winnipeg | Guy Maddin
1735: Philadelphia | Benjamin Franklin
c. 1105: Tus | Al-Ghazali
1919: Winesburg, OH | Sherwood Anderson
2018: New York City | Dara Horn
1986: New York City | Phillip Lopate
1820: Recanati | Giacomo Leopardi
2013: New York City | Zadie Smith
Ecstasy
2010: Spiderhead | George Saunders
1931: London | Vita Sackville-West
c. 1320: Heaven | Dante Alighieri
1993: Paris | Milan Kundera
1885: Vilamorta | Emilia Pardo Bazán
426: Rome | Saint Augustine
1876: Laurel Springs, NJ | Walt Whitman
c. 1800: France | Heinrich von Kleist
c. 1930: Sofia | Rana Dasgupta
1823: Paris | Claire de Duras
1687: Japan | Matsuo Basho
1968: Rio de Janeiro | Clarice Lispector
c. 200: Athens | Alciphron
1953: Anaheim, CA | Disneyland Prospectus
1936: Berlin | Walter Benjamin
c. 1950: Campina Grande | Manuel Camilo dos Santos
c. 2004: Provincetown, MA | Mary Oliver
c. 1393: Bishop’s Lynn | Margery Kempe
1926: Mansfield, MO | Rose Wilder Lane
1177: Persia | Farid al-Din Attar
1988: Boston | Lauren Slater
1859: Paris | Ivan Goncharov
1793: Saint-Domingue | Émeric Bergeaud
c. 400: Chaisang | Tao Qian
2016: Lagos | Efua Traoré
FURTHER REMARKS
Essays
The Loneliest of Species | Jay Griffiths
Government Work | Maddy Crowell
Hell Breaks Loose | Henry Freedland
Departments
Conversations | Khayyam, Daybreaker, Tokumitsu
Miscellany | Fish Moods, Yummy Death, Herbal Prozac
Glossary | Bomb Happy, Joystick, Sad Cake
Sources | Readings & Art