Roundtable
Opinions and analysis from Lapham’s Quarterly writers and editors.
June 10, 2025
March 05, 2021
The Rest Is History
A “really exciting” spearhead, merpeople sightings, and a fancy chariot.
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March 01, 2021
An Omnivorous Biped That Wears Breeches
A magazine columnist considers the failures of men’s fashion in 1915.
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February 26, 2021
The Rest Is History
The great polio vaccine heist, mullets, and a “highly significant” Roman phallus.
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February 12, 2021
The Rest Is History
A new continent, sounds from a very old seashell, and the possibilities of a twenty-first-century Federal Writers’ Project.
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February 10, 2021
Those Who Work
What you can learn about medieval Europe if you focus on peasants.
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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.