January 30, 2017
Lewis Lapham Reads “A Pig for All Seasons”
A 1986 Harper’s Magazine story becomes reality.
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Opinions and analysis from Lapham’s Quarterly writers and editors.
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January 27, 2017
The Rest Is History
Utopias close to home, the hair of 1920s criminals, and coffee brewed by men.
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January 25, 2017
Finding Home in War
The history—and limitations—of the international refugee regime.
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January 20, 2017
The Rest Is History
Presidents consider history, New Deals, and being rendered in wax.
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January 13, 2017
The Rest Is History
Rainbows, a forbidden city, and recipes from the days of food rationing.
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January 06, 2017
The Rest Is History
Kafka travel guides, ancient Greek tombs, and ice-skating dandies of the eighteenth century.
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January 04, 2017
The Marriage of Vanilla
In 1841 twelve-year-old slave Edmond Albius invented the technique that made the vanilla industry possible.
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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.
c. 1945:
Young communists engage in party matchmaking.