Roundtable
Opinions and analysis from Lapham’s Quarterly writers and editors.
May 14, 2025
September 21, 2017
A Charitable Woman
Sixteenth-century Ottoman queen Roxelana, once a slave, makes her mark.
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September 15, 2017
The Rest Is History
A broke novelist, a bird-loving composer, and a murderous pig.
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September 06, 2017
Fear of White Genocide
Tracing the history of a myth from Germany to Charlottesville.
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September 01, 2017
The Rest Is History
Librarians on horseback, society women in art, and World War II clothing.
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August 30, 2017
The Vanishing Pugilist and the Poet
The marriage of twentieth-century avant-gardists Arthur Cravan and Mina Loy was blissfully happy—until his mysterious disappearance.
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August 25, 2017
The Rest Is History
A founding father’s marriage, a city’s disappearing treasures, and a state’s campaign against a butter substitute.
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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.