September 27, 2023
That Fine-Sounding Language
Misunderstanding Greek and Latin in eighteenth-century Britain.
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September 29, 2023
Video games, chestnuts, and extremely online women.
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The history and context of Venice’s annual Wedding to the Sea.
Read MoreSeptember 20, 2023
On the pope’s waning political influence in Mussolini’s Italy.
Read MoreSeptember 15, 2023
A massacre of forest protectors, an apocalypse-proof building, and a Van Gogh in an Ikea bag.
Read MoreSeptember 15, 2023
How English words evolved on a foreign continent.
Read MoreSeptember 13, 2023
Paul W. Morris joins Lapham’s Quarterly and the American Agora Foundation.
Read MoreSeptember 11, 2023
How to raise a child with taste in eighteenth-century Britain.
Read MoreSeptember 08, 2023
A plague film, a catchy song, and a Chinese dissident.
Read More2023:
Fitness instructor carves his girlfriend’s name into the Colosseum.
c. 1850:
Thompson of Sunderland makes his mark on Pompey’s pillar.
2023:
Writers on strike search for romance at the picket line.
c. 1945:
Young communists engage in party matchmaking.