Roundtable
Opinions and analysis from Lapham’s Quarterly writers and editors.
May 4, 2025
June 03, 2022
How to Dress Like the Perfect Summer Read
Considering the wardrobe required in a warm weather novel.
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June 01, 2022
The Rules of Attraction
Greek homosexuality and its influence on ancient Rome.
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May 31, 2022
Work the Lazy Way
On Annie Payson Call’s familiar advice to tired nineteenth-century workers.
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May 27, 2022
The Rest Is History
Straining the bounds of novelty; the dead of the past, present, and inevitable future; and objects left behind.
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May 25, 2022
The Ornatrices of Londinium
Finding evidence of the lives of the enslaved along the Thames.
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May 20, 2022
The Rest Is History
Feeding babies, the absence of information, and a crucial question about intergenerational justice.
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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.