Roundtable
Opinions and analysis from Lapham’s Quarterly writers and editors.
May 5, 2025
March 08, 2023
Collections Agency
How looted items from Germany’s colonies made their way to museums in Berlin.
Read More
March 07, 2023
Waiting for Brando
The saga of a disastrous 1961 film production of Homer’s epic.
Read More
March 06, 2023
Historical Experiments
A conversation on philosophy, fiction, and the secret friendship between scholarship and ecstasy.
Read More
March 03, 2023
The Rest Is History
Mysterious whale behavior, an Upton Sinclair novel, and several waves of hunter-gatherers.
Read More
- ‹ previous
- 12 of 162
- next ›
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.