Roundtable
Opinions and analysis from Lapham’s Quarterly writers and editors.
July 22, 2025
June 16, 2017
The Rest Is History
Big sleeves in the 1830s, white marble in the ancient world, and personal branding in the twentieth century.
Read MoreJune 09, 2017
The Rest Is History
Having (and eating) cake in French literature, organizing crime around a lemon grove, and working with Frank Lloyd Wright.
Read MoreJune 02, 2017
The Rest Is History
Sigmund Freud in America, Shirley Jackson at home, and Edith Wharton in the archives.
Read MoreMay 31, 2017
Edison vs. Scott
The complicated story behind the invention of sound recording.
Read MoreMay 19, 2017
The Rest Is History
Reconsidering the Hollywood sign, inventing the department store, and transforming nature photography.
Read MoreMay 12, 2017
The Rest Is History
Agatha Christie goes missing, Richard III gets restaged, and medieval toads find religion.
Read MoreMay 08, 2017
The Accidental Avant-Gardist
Raymond Roussel’s lonely place in literary history.
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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.