Roundtable
Opinions and analysis from Lapham’s Quarterly writers and editors.
July 18, 2025
September 24, 2018
Medieval Wellness Tips
Whether the problem was an arrowhead, a beating, or being visible, Middle English manuscripts from the fifteenth century offered solutions.
Read More
September 21, 2018
The Rest Is History
Sipping gold, the post office police, and hungry ravens.
Read More
September 20, 2018
“We Must Live Somehow. We Are Human.”
The author of The Trials of Nina McCall looks at the sex workers’ resistance.
Read More
September 19, 2018
The School Formerly Known as LeConte
A debate in Berkeley about the power of a name.
Read More
September 17, 2018
At Home with the Intimists
Pierre Bonnard and Édouard Vuillard, artistic interior decorators.
Read More
September 14, 2018
The Rest Is History
A fish bunker, a Byzantine undersea surprise, and surprise telescopes.
Read More
September 13, 2018
“Eat More Onions!”
Desperate and massively debatable medical advice from 1918.
Read More
September 12, 2018
Welcome to New York
Remembering Castle Garden, a nineteenth-century immigrant welfare state.
Read More- ‹ previous
- 102 of 165
- next ›
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.