Roundtable
Opinions and analysis from Lapham’s Quarterly writers and editors.
September 6, 2025
May 17, 2018
Living Underwater with Jacques Cousteau
The author of Beyond the Map takes us to Starfish House.
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May 16, 2018
Piecing Together a Border’s History, One Love Letter at a Time
Finding a puzzle from the past in a family member’s basement.
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May 15, 2018
Defining Privacy—and Then Getting Rid of It
The beginnings of the end of private life in the late nineteenth century.
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May 14, 2018
The Sovereign Urban Intellectual
How Diogenes Laertius’ Lives of the Eminent Philosophers influenced Renaissance Italy.
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May 10, 2018
Remembering Back
The author of Seven Ways of Looking at Pointless Suffering reads Sidney Bechet’s autobiography.
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May 08, 2018
Mother May I
“I am,” Samuel Beckett wrote of his mother, “what her savage loving has made me.”
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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.