June 24, 2022
Walk on the Wild Side
On the lives passing through Kew Gardens on a summer day.
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Opinions and analysis from Lapham’s Quarterly writers and editors.
June 28, 2022
June 24, 2022
The Rest Is History
Title IX, the negative consequences of empire, and the fate of several shipwrecks.
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June 23, 2022
Perhaps the Most Remarkable Rock Garden in Existence
Visiting Lady Broughton’s very odd English glacier.
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June 17, 2022
Old Ladies Are Garrulous, and I Am No Exception
How to keep summer in your heart at any age.
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June 17, 2022
The Rest Is History
Hitchhiking, erotic cookbooks, and a baffling mass frog burial.
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June 10, 2022
The Rest Is History
Comparative ice studies, a custom encryption scheme, and the history of judicial supremacy.
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Dance Stance Revolution
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Brazilian blocos ignore ban on Carnival celebrations.
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Italian plague patients ignore ban on dance parties.
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Crash Test Dummies
2022:
YouTuber accused of crashing an airplane as a publicity stunt.
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Passenger agent crashes two trains in a publicity stunt.