October 02, 2018
The Coast of Death
From shipwrecks to Couto Mixto, Galicia has long been home to contraband.
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Opinions and analysis from Lapham’s Quarterly writers and editors.
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October 01, 2018
Time After Time
Fritz Houtermans at the beginning—and nearly the end—of the world.
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September 28, 2018
The Rest Is History
A long-lost letter, a modern Melville, and “macabre artifacts.”
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September 26, 2018
A Flannery O’Connor Reading List
Imagining book recommendations from a life of letters.
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September 24, 2018
Medieval Wellness Tips
Whether the problem was an arrowhead, a beating, or being visible, Middle English manuscripts from the fifteenth century offered solutions.
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September 21, 2018
The Rest Is History
Sipping gold, the post office police, and hungry ravens.
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September 20, 2018
“We Must Live Somehow. We Are Human.”
The author of The Trials of Nina McCall looks at the sex workers’ resistance.
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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.