Roundtable
Opinions and analysis from Lapham’s Quarterly writers and editors.
May 15, 2025
May 08, 2017
The Accidental Avant-Gardist
Raymond Roussel’s lonely place in literary history.
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May 05, 2017
The Rest Is History
Going to the moon in 1683, defining the look of witchcraft, and combing the seafloor for treasure.
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May 03, 2017
Mild, Medium, or Hot?
How Americans went from adventurous eaters to plain janes—and then back again.
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April 26, 2017
Dancing for the Masses
In 1921 Isadora Duncan journeys to the Soviet Union in search of a more meaningful career.
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April 21, 2017
The Rest Is History
Medical marijuana in the nineteenth century, lost cities in the jungle, and noise complaints from Marcel Proust.
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April 19, 2017
Imagined Futures
From Albert Robida’s cities in the sky to Jules Verne’s 1960s dystopia.
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April 17, 2017
Lewis Lapham Reads “Homo Faber”
The preamble to Discovery, the Spring 2017 issue of Lapham’s Quarterly.
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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.