Roundtable
Opinions and analysis from Lapham’s Quarterly writers and editors.
June 20, 2025
August 19, 2022
The Rest Is History
Missing pieces from an ancient board game, fiddle-faddle, and Eugene V. Debs as matchmaker.
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August 17, 2022
Fiction Is History
Maya Jasanoff and Lewis H. Lapham follow Joseph Conrad across the sea.
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August 15, 2022
Statues from a Female Hand!
On the women who helped shape the eighteenth-century art scene in London.
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August 12, 2022
The Rest Is History
Triumphalist histories, equable indifference, and ancient rubbish.
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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.