Roundtable
Opinions and analysis from Lapham’s Quarterly writers and editors.
June 26, 2025
February 24, 2017
The Rest Is History
Ghosts of the 1940s, childbirth in the 1910s, and pasta in the 1770s.
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February 21, 2017
An Immanent Humanist
Revisiting the life and work of the eccentric anthropologist Paul Radin.
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February 17, 2017
The Rest Is History
Proust: caught on film, laundry chutes: more interesting than you thought, and news: fake?
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February 13, 2017
Housing First
A visual history of twenty-five years of Housing Works, the New York City nonprofit helping people with HIV/AIDS.
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February 10, 2017
The Rest Is History
The real Mr. Darcy, advice from 1920s starlets, and valentines for enemies.
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February 08, 2017
The Lapham’s Quarterly Guide to the White House
Life in the First Mansion can be tough. We can help.
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February 06, 2017
Hereditary Forces
The unsettling history behind the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s American period rooms.
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February 03, 2017
The Rest Is History
The landscape of literary London, the science fiction of Scientology, and what Victorians actually looked like.
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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.