Roundtable
Opinions and analysis from Lapham’s Quarterly writers and editors.
July 29, 2025
April 19, 2018
Voices in Time: The Magic of Fictional Libraries
The author of The Library reads novels for inspiration.
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April 18, 2018
Where in the World Is Vittoria Colonna?
For a historical figure who seemed to be everywhere, there is startlingly little written about this Renaissance woman.
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April 16, 2018
How to Rescue Women from the Historical Dustbin
It takes a lot of work, but the internet helps.
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April 13, 2018
The Rest Is History
Fair housing, darts, and the meaning (or not) of unibrows.
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April 12, 2018
Voices in Time: The KKK Makes Its Case in Mass Media
The author of The Second Coming of the KKK shows an early twentieth-century attempt to go mainstream.
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April 11, 2018
A Search for Piety in Pity
Tracing the evolution of an emotion through ancient literature.
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April 10, 2018
The Dawn of Dining
A short history of dinner in France from Charlemagne to Napoleon.
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April 09, 2018
Just Like Us
Boston and Providence meet the famous Siamese twins, Chang and Eng Bunker.
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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.
Revolutionary Lovebirds
2023:
Writers on strike search for romance at the picket line.
c. 1945:
Young communists engage in party matchmaking.