Roundtable
Opinions and analysis from Lapham’s Quarterly writers and editors.
August 1, 2025
June 27, 2018
An Honest Traveler
In praise of Thomas Manning, a nineteenth-century Englishman in Tibet.
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June 26, 2018
A Cutter of Profiles
On Moses Williams, who captured history with his silhouettes.
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June 21, 2018
Weegee the Not Yet Famous
A newspaper columnist watches the photographer practice a different instrument.
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June 20, 2018
Killer Queens
When women ran the empire—and their history was preserved by men.
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June 19, 2018
Encyclopedia Hounds
A few of Encyclopædia Britannica’s famous readers, on the occasion of its 250th anniversary.
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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.