Roundtable
Opinions and analysis from Lapham’s Quarterly writers and editors.
June 18, 2025
December 16, 2022
The Rest Is History
A rich repository of bird-inspired names, soccer, and shadow libraries.
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December 09, 2022
The Rest Is History
Recipes, missing arms, and a serene triceratops crunching on a pine tree.
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December 08, 2022
Everlasting Monuments of the Pen
Historians should scorn death and preserve the truth.
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December 07, 2022
It Belongs in a Museum
Isabella Stewart Gardner builds a place to house her art.
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December 02, 2022
The Rest Is History
Memory work, Syrian cassette tapes, and the ghost of the Paris Commune.
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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.