Roundtable
Opinions and analysis from Lapham’s Quarterly writers and editors.
September 24, 2022
September 23, 2022
The Rest Is History
Weird medieval guys, good planks, and useless fallout shelters.
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September 16, 2022
The Rest Is History
French jam, “serious and thoughtful men,” and “blocks of lard and orange American cheese.”
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September 14, 2022
Between Exposure and Occlusion
The surprising, varied, unpredictable, and defamiliarizing process of researching pornography.
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September 12, 2022
Making an Enemy of Luxury
Imagining utopia—and condemning excess—during the Enlightenment.
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September 09, 2022
The Rest Is History
Lightning, floods, and the earliest known evidence of surgery.
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September 02, 2022
The Summer Is Over! Alas! Alas!
Correspondence marking the season’s end and a return to work.
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September 02, 2022
The Rest Is History
Quotations, “disparate versions of manhood,” and “a famously stupid bridge.”
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Home Secretary
2022:
A cabinet holdover greets yet another prime minister.
1022:
A noble pet listens and offers counsel.