August 15, 2018
“There Are No Pianos to Be Had Here”
Frédéric Chopin and George Sand go to Majorca.
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Opinions and analysis from Lapham’s Quarterly writers and editors.
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August 14, 2018
Making Monuments What They Ought to Be
A preface to the new edition of Standing Soldiers, Kneeling Slaves.
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August 13, 2018
An Emily Dickinson Reading List
Imagining book recommendations from a life of letters.
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August 10, 2018
The Rest Is History
Overworked librarians, bog bodies, and the impossibility of making a dictionary.
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August 09, 2018
Portraits of the Bowery
The author of Devil’s Mile looks at a changing urban landscape.
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August 06, 2018
Aboriginal Aquaculture
The first Australian engineers and how history almost overlooked them.
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August 02, 2018
Seeing for Himself
The amazing life of the doctor called to perform at the Hamilton-Burr duel.
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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.