Table of Contents
2010 Spring
Arts & Letters
Introductory
Voices in Time
Inspiration
- Annie Dillard Posts a Job Description: 1989 / San Juan Islands, WA
- Vasily Kandinsky Replaces the Object: 1913 / Moscow
- Ways of the World: c.280 / China
- Communion: 1898 / Yasnaya Polyana
- Money Order: 1859 / Lucerne
- Casting Call: 1921 / Italy
- Divine Inspiration: c. 680 / North Yorkshire
- Roberto Bolaño's War of Words: 1975 / Mexico City
- Definition: 1757 / Paris
- Test of Time: 1919 / England
- Aleksandr Pushkin Prepares a Crime Scene: 1791 / Vienna
- Gustave Flaubert Conducts a Workshop: c. 1845 / France
- Vladimir Nabokov Observes a Fissure In Time: 1941 / St. Petersburg
- Practice Makes Perfect: 1834 / Japan
- Bacchic Frenzy: c. 412 BC / Athens
- Incitement to Riot: 1909 / Paris
- How to Begin: c. 18 BC / Rome
- Used By Permission of the Author: c. 1830 / Paris
- Clement Greenberg Examines the Umbilical Cord of Gold : 1939 / New York City
- An Ugly Man With Feeling: 1917 / Sweden
- Practice and Theory: c. 25 BC / Rome
- Writing in Stone: 1831 / Paris
- Stefan Zweig Catches the Fever: c. 1900 / Vienna
- Skill Sets: 1765 / Paris
- Shivering Fragments: 1908 / Perugia
- Louis Armstrong Up North With the Greats: 1922 / Chicago
- Not For Glory and Least of All For Profit: 1950 / Stockholm
Creation
- Kurt Vonnegut at the Blackboard: 2005 / New York City
- Writer's Block: 1890 / Christiana
- Elvis Presley is On Your Side: 1970 / Washington, DC
- James Baldwin Hears the Blues: 1957 / New York City
- Root and Blossom: 1821 / Pisa
- Digital Enhancement: c. 1550 / Italy
- Aflame: 1908 / Paris
- Rockstar: c. 55 / Rome
- David Selznick Gives a Damn: 1939 / New York City
- Verse Tartare: 1935 / Brooklyn
- Vincent Van Gogh Looks Back: 1889 / St.-Rémy-de-Provence
- Iconography: c. 1630 / Seville
- George Orwell on Bad Writing: 1946 / London
- Story Line: c. 335 BC / Athens
- Injured On the Job: 1509 / Vatican City
- Marcel Proust Obeys the Laws of Perspective: c. 1890 / Balbec
- John Berger Draws the Point of Crisis: 1953 / London
- The Inner Bamboo: c. 1075 / China
- By the Scroll: c. 550 BC / Athens
- Raymond Chandler Bites His Tongue: 1944 / Los Angeles
- Direct Impression: 1889 / London
- No Girl Next Door: 1906 / Japan
- Half-Formed Insects on the Nile: 1711 / London
- Show Business: 1941 / Los Angeles
- Aristophanes Ridicules Aeschylus and Euripides: 405 BC / Hades
- Glenn Gould Turns His Back on the Audience: c. 1975 / Toronto
- Guidelines: 1954 / Washington, DC
- The Puppet On a Cart : c. 1400 / Japan
- Mixed Reviews: 1939 / New York City
Exhibition
- Zadie Smith Escapes From an Art Class: 2005 / Wellington
- Waste Paper: c. 105 / Rome
- Music of the Spheres: c. 1820 / Balearic Islands
- Celebrity: 1965 / Philadelphia
- Outline and Shadow: 1843 / London
- Artistic License: 1573 / Venice
- Grand Tour: 1853 / Paris
- Callous Disregard: 1956 / New York City
- Ekphrasis: 1938 / Brussels
- Second Opinion: 1777 / Paris
- Artifactitious Stammerings: 1937 / Berlin
- Just Say No: c. 430 BC / China
- George Catlin Paints Little Bear: 1832 / Missouri
- Lee Quinones Does the Cars: 1976 / New York City
- Lifeblood of a Master Spirit: 1644 / London
- Softened Ivory: c. 5 / Rome
- Life Devoid of Words: 1896 / Nizhny Novgorod
- Robert Towne on the Plight of Screenwriters: 1995 / Los Angeles
- American Idol: 1849 / New York City
- Establishing Shot: 1605 / La Mancha
- Jack Tworkov on the Innocent Eye: 1961 / Provincetown
- Loose Screws: 1848 / Edinburgh
- Benvenuto Cellini Collects His Fee: 1524 / Rome
- Blue Chips: 1973 / New York City
- Chirping Insects: c. 1165 / China
- The Universal Possession of Mankind: 1827 / Weimar
- Library: c. 1587 / Aquitaine
- Power of Music: c. 50 BC / China
- Tautology: 1977 / New York City
- High Compliment: c. 415 BC / Athens
- Everlasting Laws: 1853 / Venice
- Divine Chant: c. 390 / Antioch
- Against the Grain: 1886 / Paris
- Interrogation: 1996 / New York City
- Anton Chekhov Discourages an Author: c. 1885 / Russia
- A Pleasant Surprise : 1778 / Paris
Departments
Essays
- The Composite Artist : by Salman Rushdie
- In the Gloom the Gold : by Jamie James
- Beauty is Shoe: by Wendy Steiner
- The Sacred Word : by Sabiha Al Khemir
Conversations
- Arthur Schopenhauer & Theodor Adorno: The Universal Language
- Arthur Fifield & Norman Maclean: Kiss Off
- Walter Benjamin & Andy Warhol: A Soup Can with Cosmic Significance
- Friedrich Schiller & David Foster Wallace: Mob Mentality
- Visual Aids
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Playing Grounds
On the track, around the table, at the target, and in the ring
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Art, Photography, & Illustrations
View a selection of art from our latest issue.
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Charts & Graphs
All of our charts and graphs, pulled from the pages of Lapham’s Quarterly.
- Blogs
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- Déjà Vu Is history repeating itself? The Déjà Vu blog investigates... Our Eyes Ache With Reading — Coping with information overload in the seventeenth century and the twenty-first. Should Have Sent a Poet — Wyclef Jean and Gabriele D’Annunzio are both artists turned politicians who wanted to bring a healing brand of nationalism back to their home countries. National Pastime — Lacrosse is one of the oldest games in North America, but the Iroquois national team can’t seem get off the continent for the World Championships in England.
- Roundtable Insight and analysis from renowned writers and thinkers. This Tennis Life — Andre Agassi’s literary memoir is a sports book that even David Foster Wallace could have loved. Thrilla in Manila — Basketball is the dominant sport in the Philippines, where companies own the teams and bad calls aren’t tolerated by the fans. The Horns of a Dilemma — The end of bullfighting in Catalonia dims the lights on one of Spain’s oldest sports.
- Audio & Video
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The World in Time: Secret Lives of Insects
Anthropologist Hugh Raffles uncovers the dramatic lives and deaths of insects in his new book Insectopedia, from cricket fighting in Shanghai to the Japanese trend of keeping beetles as pets.
Arts & Letters
2010: Spring
Religion
2010: Winter
Medicine
2009: Fall
Travel
2009: Summer
Crimes & Punishments
2009: Spring
Eros
2009: Winter
Ways of Learning
2008: Fall
Book of Nature
2008: Summer
About Money
2008: Spring
States of War
2008: Winter