September 14, 2018
The Rest Is History
A fish bunker, a Byzantine undersea surprise, and surprise telescopes.
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Opinions and analysis from Lapham’s Quarterly writers and editors.
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September 13, 2018
“Eat More Onions!”
Desperate and massively debatable medical advice from 1918.
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September 12, 2018
Welcome to New York
Remembering Castle Garden, a nineteenth-century immigrant welfare state.
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September 11, 2018
A Room of Her Own
How a young lady’s bedroom became the laboratory in which her character took shape.
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September 06, 2018
“Yawns Innumerable”
The story of John Quincy Adams’ forgotten epic poem—and its most critical reader.
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September 05, 2018
Donovan Hohn Reads “Watermarks”
Listen to the preamble to Water, the Summer 2018 issue of Lapham’s Quarterly.
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September 04, 2018
Gwyn Thomas, Novelist of the Welsh Working Class
On the overlooked “Marx with laughs” and “Chekhov with chips.”
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