March 22, 2017
How Paris Became the City of Light
Louis XIV hires the city’s first police chief.
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Opinions and analysis from Lapham’s Quarterly writers and editors.
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March 17, 2017
The Rest Is History
Preparing for a royal death, an Irish tradition of the American government, and the irresistible allure of existential philosophers.
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March 10, 2017
The Rest Is History
Mill workers on strike, sailors admiring icebergs, and queens in the bath.
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March 08, 2017
The Ambassadors’ Plot
The American abroad, from James to Highsmith and Ozick.
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March 03, 2017
The Rest Is History
A hotel on the moon, skydiving beavers, and the smells of 1906.
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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.
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Revolutionary Lovebirds
2023:
Writers on strike search for romance at the picket line.
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Young communists engage in party matchmaking.