March 21, 2025
Lapham’s Quarterly Announces New Stewardship
The magazine will relaunch under the stewardship of Bard College and its Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities in 2025.
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Opinions and analysis from Lapham’s Quarterly writers and editors.
May 16, 2025
December 21, 2022
2022 in Review on Roundtable
The sixteen most read essays and excerpts on the Lapham’s Quarterly website this year.
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December 16, 2022
The Rest Is History
A rich repository of bird-inspired names, soccer, and shadow libraries.
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December 09, 2022
The Rest Is History
Recipes, missing arms, and a serene triceratops crunching on a pine tree.
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December 08, 2022
Everlasting Monuments of the Pen
Historians should scorn death and preserve the truth.
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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.