Roundtable
Opinions and analysis from Lapham’s Quarterly writers and editors.
July 22, 2025
October 13, 2017
The Rest Is History
Dancing girls, ancient lentils, and Sylvia Plath goes to college.
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October 11, 2017
The First Tejano Historian
How José Antonio Navarro challenged the historical narrative of Anglo Texas.
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October 06, 2017
The Rest Is History
Artists’ meals, Homer’s lessons, and presidents’ children.
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September 29, 2017
The Rest Is History
Dates at the dissecting theater, a royal Mickey Mouse, and pop music on the front lines.
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September 25, 2017
Lewis Lapham Reads “’Round Midnight”
Listen to the preamble to Music, the Fall 2017 issue of Lapham’s Quarterly.
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September 21, 2017
A Charitable Woman
Sixteenth-century Ottoman queen Roxelana, once a slave, makes her mark.
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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.
Revolutionary Lovebirds
2023:
Writers on strike search for romance at the picket line.
c. 1945:
Young communists engage in party matchmaking.