Roundtable
Opinions and analysis from Lapham’s Quarterly writers and editors.
June 17, 2025
October 08, 2018
Ovid’s Game
Pickup artists trace a path from the Ars Amatoria to Neil “Style” Strauss.
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October 05, 2018
The Rest Is History
Crystal flutes, house archaeology, and Neanderthal genes.
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October 04, 2018
How Lorraine Hansberry Saw Herself
The author of Looking for Lorraine shares a revealing self-portrait.
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October 03, 2018
Dr. Johnson’s Dream
What did the memory of Nathaniel Johnson mean to his brother Samuel?
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October 02, 2018
The Coast of Death
From shipwrecks to Couto Mixto, Galicia has long been home to contraband.
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October 01, 2018
Time After Time
Fritz Houtermans at the beginning—and nearly the end—of the world.
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September 28, 2018
The Rest Is History
A long-lost letter, a modern Melville, and “macabre artifacts.”
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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.