Roundtable
Opinions and analysis from Lapham’s Quarterly writers and editors.
September 12, 2025
December 06, 2019
The Rest Is History
Unpleasant holiday travel, royal translations, and chins.
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December 03, 2019
Attacks on Purported Quacks
How legislation targeted Chinese doctors in America.
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December 02, 2019
The Use and Abuse of Nature
Ancient Chinese views of the balance between the human and natural worlds.
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November 29, 2019
The Rest Is History
A chess piece, an 18,000-year-old puppy, and anonymity.
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November 26, 2019
Another Cat in the Wall
Why do dead animals keep turning up in old houses?
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November 25, 2019
Holding a Mirror Up to Nature
On William Monroe Trotter and the Guardian.
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November 20, 2019
Marriage (Market Price)
A history of using daughters as currency, from ancient Greece to the Stuart monarchy.
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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.