October 13, 2026
The Knife’s Edge
By 1945, Hannah Arendt believed Zionism had lost its way. The publication of “Zionism Reconsidered” threatened to exile her anew, this time from the “homeland” of friendship.
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Opinions and analysis from Lapham’s Quarterly writers and editors.
October 14, 2026
September 17, 2026
Dear Lewis, Dear Annie
A writer, recently returned from the Galápagos, corresponds with her assigning editor.
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September 15, 2026
Tracing Shadows
What Toni Morrison made of Moby Dick and Huckleberry Finn.
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September 14, 2026
The Artist (Formerly) Known as Louis Rigaud
Over the course of a century, a nineteenth-century artist’s paintings traveled from Port-au-Prince to New Orleans to Washington to New Haven. His name stayed in the archives, waiting to be found.
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August 31, 2026
The Battle at Fort Necessity
How a young George Washington, fortune-seeking in the Ohio Country, helped start the Seven Years’ War.
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August 28, 2026
A Revolution Around a Star Place
1776 looked different from the Cherokee towns on the Little Tennessee River.
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August 03, 2026
A Sea of Islands
George Forster’s breadfruit botany and the history of Polynesian migration.
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August 07, 2023
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.
May 22, 2023
Revolutionary Lovebirds
2023:
Writers on strike search for romance at the picket line.
c. 1945:
Young communists engage in party matchmaking.