The Champion Single Sculls (Max Schmitt in a Single Scull), by Thomas Eakins, 1871. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Alfred N. Punnett Endowment Fund and George D. Pratt Gift, 1934.

Sports & Games

Volume III, Number 3 | summer 2010

Field of Dreams

By Lewis H. Lapham

Play is the making of civilization—how one plays the game more to the point than whether the game is won or lost.

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Wordplay

By Simon Apter

Sportswriting is a language rich in slang that’s helped create our common culture.

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Map

Playing Grounds

On the track, in the ring, around the table, and at the target.

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1621 | Oxford

Endgames

Robert Burton on the thrill of victory and the agony of defeat.More

27 | Fidenae

Low Overhead

Tragedy at the stadium.More

c. 1943 | United States

A League of Their Own

Rules of conduct for professional women’s baseball.More

Charts & Graphs

Athletic Rulers

Politicians who can talk the talk, and swing the club.

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I do love cricket—it’s so very English.I do love cricket—it’s so very English.

- Sarah Bernhardt, c. 1908

Yogi Berra & Charles Barkley

Lapham’sDaily

Thelonious Monk, Minton’s Playhouse, New York, 1947. Photograph by William P. Gottlieb. Library of Congress, Music Division.

Roundtable

Lewis Lapham Reads “’Round Midnight”

By Lapham’s Quarterly

Listen to the preamble to Music, the Fall 2017 issue of Lapham’s Quarterly. More

U.S. secretary of agriculture Sonny Perdue meets with German minister of food and agriculture Christian Schmidt, 2017.

DÉjÀ Vu

Equal Climates

2017:

U.S. Department of Agriculture bans words related to climate change.

-350:

Aristotle denies that the climate is changing.

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The Fall of Man, by Titian, c. 1550.

LQ Podcast

#13 Stephen Greenblatt

Lewis H. Lapham talks with Stephen Greenblatt, author of The Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve. More

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