Preamble
Fortune's Child Youth as glimpsed by its elders is a story that comes from afar, showing itself either lovely to look at or a torment to endure. More Preamble
Essays
The Long Goodbye Any novel of disenchantment and maturity must conjure up the very magic and youth that will be left behind. Michael Wood reconsiders Flaubert's Sentimental Education. More EssaysConversations
Shielded from Death and Sorrow "Once to be young, to grow old and to die, everything came to that, and then a mysterious journey into the unknown." Jane Addams and Richard Steele recall the innocence of youth. More ConversationsVoices in Time
1844: Expectations I never will believe our youngest days are our happiest. More Voices in Time
I’ve never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It’s probably because they have forgotten their own.
—Margaret Atwood, 1976
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LQ Podcast:
Tom Rachman The author of the NY Times best-selling novel The Imperfectionists talks with Aidan Flax-Clark about his latest novel, The Rise and Fall of Great Powers.
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Lewis H. Lapham
is Editor of Lapham's Quarterly. He also serves as editor emeritus and national correspondent for Harper's magazine.
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Your face, my thane, is a book where men / May read strange matters ...
— William Shakespeare
