Roundtable
Opinions and analysis from Lapham’s Quarterly writers and editors.
July 19, 2025
June 10, 2016
The Rest Is History
Cleaning up Yellowstone, the secrets of Lord Byron, and getting liberated in the 1970s.
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June 03, 2016
The Rest Is History
American superstitions, FBI’s Darwin hunt, and Jane Austen’s reality.
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June 01, 2016
A Dialectic of Doubleness
The strangeness and audacity of W.E.B. Du Bois and his work.
Read MoreMay 27, 2016
The Rest Is History
Beauties of the seventeenth century, a new look at the Kamasutra, and why the suburbs made Americans sick.
Read MoreMay 20, 2016
The Rest Is History
Impotence on trial, New York’s most beloved nude model, and reading clothes like literature.
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May 13, 2016
The Rest Is History
Everyone’s a witch, everyone’s getting poisoned, and everyone’s getting tuberculosis.
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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.