March 27, 2020
The Rest Is History
Plagues from the past, female fiends, and a messy poet.
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Opinions and analysis from Lapham’s Quarterly writers and editors.
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March 26, 2020
Emergency Medical Services
George Eliot’s Romola finds meaning amid suffering.
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March 25, 2020
“A Riot of the Dead”
A German poet reports from the Paris cholera outbreak of 1832.
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March 19, 2020
Silly Novels by Lordly Novelists
“The Harriet Beecher Stowe of Fallen Women” on the fictions of fiction.
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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.