Roundtable
Opinions and analysis from Lapham’s Quarterly writers and editors.
July 18, 2025
April 30, 2020
The Omnibus’ Funeral
A new book remembers the heyday of an early form of Parisian mass transit.
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April 28, 2020
What Desolation!
After a cholera outbreak, Mary Lennox ends up quite alone.
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April 27, 2020
From Private Lives to Public Memory
An interview about America’s 1918 flu pandemic with historian Nancy K. Bristow.
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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.