January 20, 2023
The Rest Is History
Mammoth bones, a plant-based pith helmet, and sun-dried tomatoes.
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Opinions and analysis from Lapham’s Quarterly writers and editors.
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January 18, 2023
The Medieval Belly Fat Diet
Want to be called beautiful by a twelfth-century writer? Eat sweets and be rich.
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January 13, 2023
The Rest Is History
Fast food, paintings of hair, and a message in a bottle.
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January 11, 2023
Pressured to Leave
Black refugees’ journey from Virginia to Boston after the Civil War.
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December 21, 2022
2022 in Review on Roundtable
The sixteen most read essays and excerpts on the Lapham’s Quarterly website this year.
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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.