Roundtable
Opinions and analysis from Lapham’s Quarterly writers and editors.
June 17, 2025
February 23, 2018
The Rest Is History
Dreams, misconstrued bear hypotheses, and variations on a secret message.
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February 22, 2018
Voices in Time: Epistolary Activism
An early nineteenth-century feminist fights back against a narrow view of woman’s place in society.
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February 20, 2018
A Hell for Pedestrians and Horses
Remembering a time in cities when all you could hear was the sound of hooves.
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February 19, 2018
A Tramp Across America
How a Los Angeles Times editor helped create the myth of the American West.
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February 16, 2018
The Rest Is History
Valentines, real architects building fictions, and place names.
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Voices in Time: Animal Allies
A curator of historical children’s literature shares a book from World War II.
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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.
Revolutionary Lovebirds
2023:
Writers on strike search for romance at the picket line.
c. 1945:
Young communists engage in party matchmaking.