December 23, 2011
Predicting Their Own Demise
We can say what we want about the future of reading, but perhaps we ought to let the novel speak for itself.
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Opinions and analysis from Lapham’s Quarterly writers and editors.
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December 22, 2011
The Patron Saint of Dark Days
The shortest day of the year can drive anyone a little crazy, including Vincent Van Gogh.
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November 01, 2011
The Zombie Apocalypse of Daniel Defoe
The Great Plague of London and narratives of the undead.
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October 28, 2011
Heraclitus in Guatemala
D. Graham Burnett recounts an unlikely conversation he had with his barber about the philosophy of history.
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October 20, 2011
The Worst Business in the World
Everyday is doomsday if you ask certain people about the future of publishing. But the history of bookselling proves it is more adaptive than its critics give it credit for.
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October 14, 2011
An Artist in the North
The work of Tomas Tranströmer has never been weighted down by politics or sentiment, explains Celia Farber, who has known the poet for years.
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October 07, 2011
The Late Word
Curtis White discusses the connection between bookselling and book culture and what the current shift in the former means for the future of 'literature.'
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October 04, 2011
Mr. Wells Reviews a “Current” Film
H.G. Wells takes Fritz Lang’s Metropolis to task for its sentimentality and failure to display a believable future.
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September 14, 2011
Top Chef, Old Master
Leonardo da Vinci may have been a genius polymath, but at the heart of his work was a love of food and kitchen experiments.
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August 07, 2023
Monumental Mistakes
2023:
Fitness instructor carves his girlfriend’s name into the Colosseum.
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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.