December 15, 2019
A Personal Act of Reparation
The long aftermath of a North Carolina man’s decision to deed a plot of land to his former slaves.
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Opinions and analysis from Lapham’s Quarterly writers and editors.
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December 12, 2019
Medieval Macaroni
On the travels and linguistic transformations of pasta.
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December 11, 2019
How to Survive Winter
Now that climate change has made winter a shadow of its former self, are we learning to appreciate it?
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December 06, 2019
The Rest Is History
Unpleasant holiday travel, royal translations, and chins.
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December 03, 2019
Attacks on Purported Quacks
How legislation targeted Chinese doctors in America.
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December 02, 2019
The Use and Abuse of Nature
Ancient Chinese views of the balance between the human and natural worlds.
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November 29, 2019
The Rest Is History
A chess piece, an 18,000-year-old puppy, and anonymity.
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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.