August 10, 2020
Waking Life
During World War I, Johan Varendonck had to study what was available: his daydreams.
Read MoreRoundtable
Opinions and analysis from Lapham’s Quarterly writers and editors.
August 14, 2020
August 14, 2020
The Rest Is History
Prehistoric banana travel, quiet tennis courts, and meat ice cream.
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August 07, 2020
In Memory of Arthur Yorke Allen
Allen was a director of the American Agora Foundation, the publisher of Lapham’s Quarterly.
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August 07, 2020
The Rest Is History
Soap, immunoprivilege, and not wearing a mask in 1918.
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August 05, 2020
The Most Beautiful Girl in America
Setting the scene for the first Miss America pageant.
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August 04, 2020
With Friends Like These
On early American attempts to kick out foreigners.
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August 03, 2020
Not a Girl, Not Yet a New Woman
Mrs. Humphry Ward and the politics of women’s literature.
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July 31, 2020
The Rest Is History
Uncomfortable earrings, sports bubbles, and socially sanctioned love triangles.
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July 31, 2020
Novel Privilege
Conservative eighteenth-century novels used readers’ sympathies to defend the establishment.
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August 13, 2020
The Cockerel Brief
2020:
Rooster fined 166 euros for early morning crowing in Italian town.
1474:
Rooster questioned for laying egg, perhaps at the behest of Satan.
April 24, 2020
Space Oddities
2020:
Exoplanet revealed to be nothing but a large cloud of dust.
1903:
Supposed irrigation canals on Mars are merely optical illusions.