Roundtable
Opinions and analysis from Lapham’s Quarterly writers and editors.
September 5, 2025
April 02, 2021
The Rest is History
The vaccination selfie, tipping, and a handful of coins.
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March 31, 2021
Revisiting the Dead
Could Staten Island’s memorials to those lost to nineteenth-century epidemics tell us how the Covid-19 pandemic will be remembered?
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March 26, 2021
The Rest Is History
A “funny little” snail man and the voice of John Keats.
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March 24, 2021
A Confusion of Language
On the legal foundations that spurred centuries of civil rights movements.
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March 19, 2021
The Rest Is History
Kitschy miniature mountains, listening to books, and a famous carp.
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March 17, 2021
The First Revisionist Historian
On the consequential innovations of Herodotus and Thucydides.
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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.