Roundtable
Opinions and analysis from Lapham’s Quarterly writers and editors.
May 7, 2025
October 17, 2022
Set on Fire
In the 1930s British aristocrats partied and died in Kenya. In the 1980s writers and filmmakers mythologized them.
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October 14, 2022
The Rest Is History
A Boston accent, tiny sailor shorts, and run-of-the-mill reasons.
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October 07, 2022
The Rest Is History
The world’s largest tamale, mercenaries, and boring truths.
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September 23, 2022
The Rest Is History
Weird medieval guys, good planks, and useless fallout shelters.
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September 19, 2022
A Fiery Gospel
Kermit Roosevelt III and Lewis H. Lapham discuss changing the American story.
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September 16, 2022
The Rest Is History
French jam, “serious and thoughtful men,” and “blocks of lard and orange American cheese.”
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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.