Roundtable

Opinions and analysis from Lapham’s Quarterly writers and editors.

November 01, 2011

The Zombie Apocalypse of Daniel Defoe

By Andrew McConnell Stott

The Great Plague of London and narratives of the undead.

October 28, 2011

Heraclitus in Guatemala

By D. Graham Burnett

D. Graham Burnett recounts an unlikely conversation he had with his barber about the philosophy of history.

October 20, 2011

The Worst Business in the World

By Ben Tarnoff

Everyday is doomsday if you ask certain people about the future of publishing. But the history of bookselling proves it is more adaptive than its critics give it credit for.

October 14, 2011

An Artist in the North

By Celia Farber

The work of Tomas Tranströmer has never been weighted down by politics or sentiment, explains Celia Farber, who has known the poet for years.

October 07, 2011

The Late Word

By Curtis White

Curtis White discusses the connection between bookselling and book culture and what the current shift in the former means for the future of 'literature.'

October 04, 2011

Mr. Wells Reviews a “Current” Film

By H.G. Wells

H.G. Wells takes Fritz Lang’s Metropolis to task for its sentimentality and failure to display a believable future.

September 14, 2011

Top Chef, Old Master

By Michelle Legro

Leonardo da Vinci may have been a genius polymath, but at the heart of his work was a love of food and kitchen experiments.

September 01, 2011

Curry, Favored

By Noga Arikha

Authenticity it is taken for granted by those born within old culinary traditions, but pursued precisely by those for whom the “local” is reduced to the farmer’s market.

July 14, 2011