Roundtable
Opinions and analysis from Lapham’s Quarterly writers and editors.
July 19, 2025
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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May 11, 2020
The Haunting of Drums and Shadows
On the stories and landscapes the Federal Writers’ Project left unexplored.
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May 08, 2020
The Rest Is History
A teenage mummy, the Tokyo Olympics, and ancient tourists.
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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.