September 06, 2023
Ghost Writer
On the fictional—or not-so-fictional—narrator of In Search of Lost Time.
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Opinions and analysis from Lapham’s Quarterly writers and editors.
June 19, 2025
September 01, 2023
The Rest Is History
Systems novels, lessons for organizers, and the emerging terrain of struggle.
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August 30, 2023
Possibilities for Propaganda
The founding and funding of conservative media on college campuses in the 1960s.
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August 25, 2023
The Rest Is History
Victorian murders, abandoned villages, and traveling tales.
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August 23, 2023
The Early History of Counting
How ancient peoples learned to keep a tally.
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August 21, 2023
Rather Ridiculous Than Criminal
How not to be disgusting in Renaissance Italy.
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August 18, 2023
The Rest Is History
Jigsaw puzzles, gun control, and thwarted revolutionaries.
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August 16, 2023
A Repugnance to Autobiography
George Eliot and her partner George Henry Lewes consider what an author leaves behind besides her books.
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August 11, 2023
The Rest Is History
A hacker market, an ancestral village, and a creepy love letter.
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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.