May 03, 2018
The Country’s Least Famous, Yet Best-Known Female Artist
The author of The Fair Chase introduces Fanny Palmer.
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Opinions and analysis from Lapham’s Quarterly writers and editors.
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April 30, 2018
City as Character
Getting lost in the text-cities of Joyce, Döblin, and Dos Passos.
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April 27, 2018
The Rest Is History
Starry nights, trendy 1920s greens, and thirteenth-century wellness guides.
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April 26, 2018
Voices in Time: A Fight Against Suffrage
The author of The Woman’s Hour finds a photo of a battle to freeze progress.
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April 23, 2018
The History of the Shariʿa
How Islam’s divine law emerged, evolved, and spread—then reached a crisis point.
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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.