Roundtable
Opinions and analysis from Lapham’s Quarterly writers and editors.
May 10, 2025
April 15, 2016
The Rest Is History
Animation from 1908, ninth-century automata, and the hazards of early cosmetics.
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April 11, 2016
History in Wax
How a museum in Baltimore shapes African American history—in wax.
Read MoreApril 08, 2016
The Rest Is History
Beckett in Paris, Charlotte Brontë in love, and Americans in suburbia.
Read MoreApril 01, 2016
The Rest Is History
A forgotten war, an almost-lost language, and Shakespeare’s wages.
Read MoreMarch 25, 2016
The Rest Is History
Presidential Easter eggs, an 1860s criminal mastermind, and England’s most famous modern witch.
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The Rest Is History
Shakespearean dirty talk, a trip to Coney Island, and drinking in Roman France.
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March 10, 2016
The Making of Malibu
How Malibu went from a private paradise to a Hollywood enclave.
Read MoreMarch 04, 2016
The Rest Is History
A Big Basket of a building, Mark Twain’s ghost writes a book, and bringing Prohibition back.
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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.