February 21, 2019
A Frederick Douglass Reading List
Reading recommendations from a lifelong education.
Read MoreRoundtable
Opinions and analysis from Lapham’s Quarterly writers and editors.
February 23, 2019
February 20, 2019
Muddy Waters
The Buddhist priests forced to find faith in internment camps.
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February 11, 2019
Browning Fever
A story of poetic fandom, literary societies, and impenetrable verse.
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February 08, 2019
The Rest Is History
Family trees, ancient sewers and canals, and Dear Abby.
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February 07, 2019
How to Cure the Cares, Fears, and Sorrows of Insomnia
The author of Milk of Paradise on a remedy from the past not to try at home.
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February 06, 2019
This Fashionable Distemper
The poetry—and male prerogative—of venereal disease in the eighteenth century.
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February 04, 2019
William James and the Spiritualist’s Phone
A story of a philosopher, his sister, and belief.
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February 15, 2019
Stolen Water Is Sweet
2019:
Thieves steal water from Canadian icebergs.
c. 96:
Rome steels itself for the possibility of “puncturers.”
December 11, 2018
Love Is Dead
2018:
Woman announces she is divorcing her pirate ghost husband.
1926:
Man sues wife for adultery with a ghost.