September 19, 2018
The School Formerly Known as LeConte
A debate in Berkeley about the power of a name.
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Opinions and analysis from Lapham’s Quarterly writers and editors.
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September 17, 2018
At Home with the Intimists
Pierre Bonnard and Édouard Vuillard, artistic interior decorators.
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September 14, 2018
The Rest Is History
A fish bunker, a Byzantine undersea surprise, and surprise telescopes.
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September 13, 2018
“Eat More Onions!”
Desperate and massively debatable medical advice from 1918.
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September 12, 2018
Welcome to New York
Remembering Castle Garden, a nineteenth-century immigrant welfare state.
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September 11, 2018
A Room of Her Own
How a young lady’s bedroom became the laboratory in which her character took shape.
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September 06, 2018
“Yawns Innumerable”
The story of John Quincy Adams’ forgotten epic poem—and its most critical reader.
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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.