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Thursday, July 2nd, 2009

Voices in Time

Charmed by a Snake A passage by Joseph Conrad from our Summer 2009 issue, “Travel.” More Voices in Time

Roundtable

Is George W. Bush Napoleon? by Noga Arikha More Roundtable

Reconsiderations

Travel Writing: Nowhere Need Be Foreign by Pico Iyer More Reconsiderations

Essays

A Little Travel Is a Dangerous Thing by D. Graham Burnett More Essays

Audio & Video

LQ Audio: Garrison Keillor Garrison Keillor reads a passage by Donald Barthelme More Audio & Video

Deja Vu

Obama to California: Drop Dead More Deja Vu

Maps

Beaten Paths An Historical Map of Four Famous Routes More Maps

Voices in Time

The Gospel According to Andrew Carnegie 1889 / Pittsburgh More Voices in Time
There’s no book so bad that something good may not be found in it.
—Miguel de Cervantes, 1615
In Stir
Enemy of the State 1597 / London
Sops for Cerberus 1775 / London
Rigor of Death 1890 / Auburn
In the Trenches
Imperial Hubris: A German Tale by Fritz Stern
Nicholas Best Discusses the End of the Great War
Dulce Et Decorum Est c. 1918 / Flanders
The Louisiana Purchaser
Lewis and Clark Go West c. 1805 / North America
Stay Home, Young Man 1787 / Paris
Thomas Jefferson Opens a School 1818 / Charlottesville
No. 44
Crime Scenes by Lewis H. Lapham
Edward J. Larson Discusses the Electoral Circus
Sean Wilentz Discusses the Age of Reagan
Oratory
Andrew Jackson Removes the Indians 1830 / Washington, D.C.
INRI 1896 / Chicago
William James Proposes the Moral Equivalent of War 1906 / Stanford
The Eternal City
Exile 8 / Tomis
Hither and Yon c. 63 / Rome
What Greater Bliss c. 65 BC / Sirmio
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Lewis H. Lapham is Editor of Lapham's Quarterly. He also serves as editor emeritus and national correspondant for Harper's magazine.
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