December 10, 2018
The Lady Is a Detective
Tracing a Victorian literary trend, detective novels—but with women.
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Opinions and analysis from Lapham’s Quarterly writers and editors.
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December 06, 2018
How to Make a Fictional Stew
The author of The Lake on Fire shares a recipe for a novel—or at least the start of one.
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December 04, 2018
Not Even a Soldier’s Death
Watching the 1918 flu from a ship deck in Willa Cather’s novel One of Ours.
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November 29, 2018
Bringing a Myth to the Surface
The author of Hannah Versus the Tree tells the story of Sedna.
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November 26, 2018
Operation Ajax
How the CIA’s first attempt at regime change nearly failed.
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Monumental Mistakes
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Fitness instructor carves his girlfriend’s name into the Colosseum.
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Thompson of Sunderland makes his mark on Pompey’s pillar.
May 22, 2023
Revolutionary Lovebirds
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Writers on strike search for romance at the picket line.
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Young communists engage in party matchmaking.