Roundtable
Opinions and analysis from Lapham’s Quarterly writers and editors.
September 26, 2018
September 24, 2018
Medieval Wellness Tips
Whether the problem was an arrowhead, a beating, or being visible, Middle English manuscripts from the fifteenth century offered solutions.
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September 21, 2018
The Rest Is History
Sipping gold, the post office police, and hungry ravens.
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September 20, 2018
“We Must Live Somehow. We Are Human.”
The author of The Trials of Nina McCall looks at the sex workers’ resistance.
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September 19, 2018
The School Formerly Known as LeConte
A debate in Berkeley about the power of a name.
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September 17, 2018
At Home with the Intimists
Pierre Bonnard and Édouard Vuillard, artistic interior decorators.
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September 14, 2018
The Rest Is History
A fish bunker, a Byzantine undersea surprise, and surprise telescopes.
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September 13, 2018
“Eat More Onions!”
Desperate and massively debatable medical advice from 1918.
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September 12, 2018
Welcome to New York
Remembering Castle Garden, a nineteenth-century immigrant welfare state.
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September 11, 2018
A Room of Her Own
How a young lady’s bedroom became the laboratory in which her character took shape.
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The Perfect Swarm
2018:
The NYPD beekeeper vacuums up a swarm of bees on a hot dog stand in Times Square.
1906:
Bees take over a Los Angeles street as spectators watch.
Waste Not Wanted
2018:
Parisians are horrified by novel public urinals.
1855:
Boston considers following in Paris’ footsteps and introducing public urinals.