Roundtable
Opinions and analysis from Lapham’s Quarterly writers and editors.
May 14, 2025
June 12, 2019
Turn the Leaves and Use Them Well
The joys of experiencing Victorian children’s books as physical objects.
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June 11, 2019
The Ancient Mesopotamian Tablet as Cookbook
Kitchen-tested recipes from four thousand years ago for your next dinner party.
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June 10, 2019
What Maketh a Man
How queer artist J.C. Leyendecker invented an iconography of twentieth-century American masculinity.
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June 06, 2019
The Art of Tupaia
The author of Endeavour shares an encounter captured in watercolor.
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June 05, 2019
I Would Prefer Not To, Your Honor
The legal afterlife of Herman Melville’s “Bartleby, the Scrivener.”
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June 03, 2019
The Most Choice Books
On Gerard of Cremona’s twelfth-century quest to translate Arabic scholarship.
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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.