Roundtable
Opinions and analysis from Lapham’s Quarterly writers and editors.
June 19, 2025
November 20, 2018
Oscar Wilde’s Radical Wit
On laughter and thought in the famed writer’s essays.
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Lost and Found
The author of Bringing Down the Colonel finally meets her subject.
Read MoreNovember 14, 2018
A Skyline Is Born
A history of filmmakers retelling the story of New York’s architecture.
Read MoreNovember 13, 2018
Crossing the Sahara in the Fourteenth Century
How to make the trip from Sijilmasa to Oualata, circa 1352.
Read MoreNovember 09, 2018
The Rest Is History
Mean obituaries, perfect elephants, and saying goodbye to ballots.
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August 07, 2023
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.
May 22, 2023
Revolutionary Lovebirds
2023:
Writers on strike search for romance at the picket line.
c. 1945:
Young communists engage in party matchmaking.