Roundtable
Opinions and analysis from Lapham’s Quarterly writers and editors.
July 14, 2025
July 10, 2025
The Guest of Emperors and Boarding House Keepers
A long-lost obituary of Mark Twain.
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July 11, 2025
The Rest Is History
Two cents from Virginia Woolf, Jane Austen, and Ben Franklin.
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July 04, 2025
The Rest Is History
Female friendship, a public toilet, and a traveling merchant.
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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.