Roundtable
Opinions and analysis from Lapham’s Quarterly writers and editors.
August 11, 2025
August 17, 2020
The Disaster Poet
On William McGonagall, the worst famous poet in the English language.
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August 14, 2020
The Rest Is History
Prehistoric banana travel, quiet tennis courts, and meat ice cream.
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August 10, 2020
Waking Life
During World War I, Johan Varendonck had to study what was available: his daydreams.
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August 07, 2020
In Memory of Arthur Yorke Allen
Allen was a director of the American Agora Foundation, the publisher of Lapham’s Quarterly.
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August 07, 2020
The Rest Is History
Soap, immunoprivilege, and not wearing a mask in 1918.
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August 05, 2020
The Most Beautiful Girl in America
Setting the scene for the first Miss America pageant.
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August 04, 2020
With Friends Like These
On early American attempts to kick out foreigners.
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August 03, 2020
Not a Girl, Not Yet a New Woman
Mrs. Humphry Ward and the politics of women’s literature.
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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.