Roundtable
Opinions and analysis from Lapham’s Quarterly writers and editors.
December 15, 2022
December 09, 2022
The Rest Is History
Recipes, missing arms, and a serene triceratops crunching on a pine tree.
Read MoreDecember 08, 2022
Everlasting Monuments of the Pen
Historians should scorn death and preserve the truth.
Read MoreDecember 07, 2022
It Belongs in a Museum
Isabella Stewart Gardner builds a place to house her art.
Read MoreDecember 02, 2022
The Rest Is History
Memory work, Syrian cassette tapes, and the ghost of the Paris Commune.
Read MoreNovember 30, 2022
Reading the Horizon
Predicting a hurricane in nineteenth-century South Carolina.
Read MoreNovember 28, 2022
A Jorge Luis Borges Reading List
Recommendations from a life of lectures and essays.
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September 28, 2022
Dance Battle
2022:
Ukrainian DJs defend their country at the club.
c. 1770:
American women declare their patriotism on the dance floor.
September 08, 2022
Home Secretary
2022:
A cabinet holdover greets yet another prime minister.
1022:
A noble pet listens and offers counsel.