Roundtable
Opinions and analysis from Lapham’s Quarterly writers and editors.
July 19, 2025
April 26, 2017
Dancing for the Masses
In 1921 Isadora Duncan journeys to the Soviet Union in search of a more meaningful career.
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April 21, 2017
The Rest Is History
Medical marijuana in the nineteenth century, lost cities in the jungle, and noise complaints from Marcel Proust.
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April 19, 2017
Imagined Futures
From Albert Robida’s cities in the sky to Jules Verne’s 1960s dystopia.
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April 17, 2017
Lewis Lapham Reads “Homo Faber”
The preamble to Discovery, the Spring 2017 issue of Lapham’s Quarterly.
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April 14, 2017
The Rest Is History
James Baldwin at the Schomburg, Ernest Hemingway in World War I, and Count Dracula in Iceland.
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April 12, 2017
Genius, Interrupted
The life, times, and trials of sculptor Camille Claudel.
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April 11, 2017
Lapham’s Quarterly Has a New Podcast
Lewis Lapham in conversation with leading historians and scholars.
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April 10, 2017
Glossary: Discovery
From astrolabe to pig in a poke, the words of discovery.
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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.