August 05, 2020
The Most Beautiful Girl in America
Setting the scene for the first Miss America pageant.
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Opinions and analysis from Lapham’s Quarterly writers and editors.
June 20, 2025
August 04, 2020
With Friends Like These
On early American attempts to kick out foreigners.
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August 03, 2020
Not a Girl, Not Yet a New Woman
Mrs. Humphry Ward and the politics of women’s literature.
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July 31, 2020
The Rest Is History
Uncomfortable earrings, sports bubbles, and socially sanctioned love triangles.
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July 31, 2020
Novel Privilege
Conservative eighteenth-century novels used readers’ sympathies to defend the establishment.
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July 30, 2020
Around the World in Eight Years
On Juanita Harrison’s My Great, Wide, Beautiful World.
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July 29, 2020
The Danielle Steel of Communism
On Anastasia Verbitskaya’s The Keys to Happiness.
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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.