Roundtable
Opinions and analysis from Lapham’s Quarterly writers and editors.
June 30, 2025
September 06, 2018
“Yawns Innumerable”
The story of John Quincy Adams’ forgotten epic poem—and its most critical reader.
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September 05, 2018
Donovan Hohn Reads “Watermarks”
Listen to the preamble to Water, the Summer 2018 issue of Lapham’s Quarterly.
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September 04, 2018
Gwyn Thomas, Novelist of the Welsh Working Class
On the overlooked “Marx with laughs” and “Chekhov with chips.”
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August 31, 2018
The Rest Is History
Subways disasters, W.E.B. Du Bois, and the fiftieth anniversary of the 1968 Democratic convention.
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August 30, 2018
Two Ways of Looking at the Bisbee Deportation
A century-old image and the film it inspired.
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August 27, 2018
Jo March, Literary Lodestar
On the Little Women character who followed in Louisa May Alcott’s footsteps.
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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.