January 25, 2021
Finding an Audience
On the laws that kept Saadat Hasan Manto’s stories—and the work of his successors—out of readers’ reach.
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Opinions and analysis from Lapham’s Quarterly writers and editors.
January 27, 2021
January 26, 2021
Revolutionizing Bureaucracy
The scene in Angoulême, a backwater in French Revolutionary politics.
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January 22, 2021
The Rest Is History
Cuneiform, Regency romances, and an archaeologist tiff.
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January 20, 2021
A Constitution of Freedom
During the 1860 presidential election, political parties dueled over the intent of the framers.
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January 15, 2021
The Rest Is History
Whaler art, vaccine rollouts, and a very American mob.
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January 14, 2021
Most Execrable and Abominable or Irreligious
When Pope Clement VII tested poisons on condemned bodies “for the benefit of the public.”
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January 12, 2021
Who Knows What to Expect When You’re Expecting
The unknown female body in early modern Italy.
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January 11, 2021
Glossary: Democracy
From auctoritas to wasta, the language of the voting public.
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January 08, 2021
The Rest Is History
An excuse to read books from 1925, a young and fragile democracy, and an Emily Dickinson adventure.
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January 01, 2021
The Rest Is History
Getting ready to hibernate, why we write, and a well-preserved snack bar.
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November 13, 2020
Whale Tales
2020:
Whale catches runaway train.
1891:
Whale purportedly houses lost sailor in its stomach.
September 14, 2020
Alfresco Gender Reveals
2020:
An outdoor gender-reveal party in California sparks a wildfire.
1500 BC:
Ancient Egyptian women visit a field of grain daily to determine their babies’ gender.