June 01, 2020
A System of Sorting
When Congress relied on eugenics to make immigration policy.
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Opinions and analysis from Lapham’s Quarterly writers and editors.
August 2, 2025
May 29, 2020
The Rest Is History
Future historians, mammoth remains, and an enormous elephant.
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May 26, 2020
“There Is Everything Here”
The Wordsworths and Coleridges build their own yearlong writing workshop.
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May 21, 2020
“Any Place Is Good Enough to Live a Life In”
Robert Louis Stevenson finds enjoyment in the unpleasant.
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May 18, 2020
Acting Like Animals During a Pandemic
What happens when Jean de La Fontaine’s creatures try to stop a plague.
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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.