Roundtable
Opinions and analysis from Lapham’s Quarterly writers and editors.
August 21, 2025
March 29, 2019
The Rest Is History
New ways of looking at Vincent Van Gogh, the Stoics, and Julia Child.
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March 27, 2019
James Boswell Finds His Voice
In which a twentysomething Scot starts preserving “many things that would otherwise be lost in oblivion.”
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March 25, 2019
A Virginia Woolf Reading List
Recommendations from a life of reviews and diary entries.
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March 22, 2019
The Rest Is History
Calories, context for a Confederate monument, and Marie Corelli.
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March 15, 2019
The Rest Is History
Medieval cats, ancient music, and a 1,150-page French cookbook.
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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.