May 16, 2018
Piecing Together a Border’s History, One Love Letter at a Time
Finding a puzzle from the past in a family member’s basement.
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Opinions and analysis from Lapham’s Quarterly writers and editors.
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May 15, 2018
Defining Privacy—and Then Getting Rid of It
The beginnings of the end of private life in the late nineteenth century.
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May 14, 2018
The Sovereign Urban Intellectual
How Diogenes Laertius’ Lives of the Eminent Philosophers influenced Renaissance Italy.
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May 10, 2018
Remembering Back
The author of Seven Ways of Looking at Pointless Suffering reads Sidney Bechet’s autobiography.
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May 08, 2018
Mother May I
“I am,” Samuel Beckett wrote of his mother, “what her savage loving has made me.”
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May 07, 2018
Do Not Forget Me Quite
How Ivor Gurney’s walks influenced his poetry and music.
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August 07, 2023
Monumental Mistakes
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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.
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Young communists engage in party matchmaking.