September 14, 2021
Midwestern Exposure
Zooming in on the places where early women photographers could build a career.
Read MoreRoundtable
Opinions and analysis from Lapham’s Quarterly writers and editors.
September 18, 2021
September 17, 2021
The Rest Is History
Indexes, newborn pachyderm footprints, and revolutionized fonts.
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September 15, 2021
A Malady Called Nationalism
Diagnosing xenophobia in the nineteenth century.
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September 10, 2021
The Rest Is History
Being saved by history, painstakingly slow restorations, and old earthquake tales.
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September 08, 2021
Journals of Plague Years
On the British doctors who became colonial disease detectives in the nineteenth century.
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September 07, 2021
Edgar Allan Poe Needs a Friend
Revisiting the relationships of “a man who never smiled.”
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September 03, 2021
The Rest Is History
The Battle of Blair Mountain, a sanitized version of the American past, and buying history on eBay.
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August 30, 2021
The World According to Sylvester Russell
The career and legacy of a Black critic who argued for the elevation of Black performance.
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August 27, 2021
The Custom of the Country
2021:
Cats of unknown provenance killed in Taiwan to prevent disease.
c. 1738:
Cats killed by workers in revolt against their master and mistress.
May 20, 2021
Read It and Weep
2021:
Woman creates an NFT artwork out of Instagram messages with a celebrity.
1757:
Woman creates an epistolary novel out of love letters with a nobleman.