Roundtable
Opinions and analysis from Lapham’s Quarterly writers and editors.
July 21, 2025
October 21, 2016
The Rest Is History
Simone de Beauvoir’s solo expeditions, the CIA’s modern art collection, and New York City’s unrealized cityscapes.
Read MoreOctober 14, 2016
The Rest Is History
Revolutionary dancing, literary redecorating, and surreal cooking.
Read MoreOctober 07, 2016
The Rest Is History
Poetic pilgrimages, a language for everyone, and the terror of Victorian England.
Read MoreSeptember 29, 2016
The Rest Is History
A pioneering cowgirl, Shirley Jackson at home and at work, and a literary auction.
Read MoreSeptember 27, 2016
The Jones Project
Smuggling Nikita Khrushchev’s memoirs out of the USSR.
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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.