The Spring 2023 issue of Lapham’s Quarterly, Freedom, is now available. With original essays by Nadja Durbach, Astra Taylor, and Curtis White; Voices in Time contributions by Bai Juyi, Miguel de Cervantes, Kate Chopin, Epictetus, Frantz Fanon, Alexander Herzen, John Milton, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Kwame Nkrumah, Thomas Paine, and Phillis Wheatley; and art by Guercino, Wassily Kandinsky, and others.
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Cover | Escaping Criticism, Pere Borrell del Caso, 1874
Program Notes | Among the Contributors
Map | Free Association
Preamble | Curtis White, It’s Not About You
VOICES IN TIME
Free Passage
2022: California | Christine Henneberg
1971: Padua | Movimento di Lotta Femminile di Padova
1848: Macon, GA | William Craft
56: Rome | Tacitus
1950: Mexico | Octavio Paz
c. 1600 bc: Ebla | Song of Liberation
c. 1600: La Mancha | Miguel de Cervantes
1927: New York City | Will Durant
1942: Oxford | C.S. Lewis
1894: St. Louis | Kate Chopin
c. 525 bc: India | Sumangalamata
1649: Surrey | Gerrard Winstanley
1981: Cairo | Nawal El Saadawi
1850: Paris | Alexander Herzen
1917: New York City | John Dos Passos
c. 1151: Rupertsberg | Hildegard of Bingen
1983: Nakuru | Koigi wa Wamwere
c. 900: Basra | Epistles of the Brethren of Purity
1895: Chicago | Eugene V. Debs
1886: London | Charlotte Wilson
1995: Casma | Augusto Ernesto Llosa Giraldo
c. 1695: Montreal | Kandiaronk
c. 1860: St. Petersburg | Fyodor Dostoevsky
1919: Washington, DC | Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
c. 1828: Beijing | Wanyan Jinchi
1952: Lyon | Frantz Fanon
73: Judea | Eleazar ben Ya’ir
1969: New York City | Edmund White
1228: Longxian | Wumen Huikai
1668: Nottinghamshire | Margaret Cavendish
1886: Russia | Anton Chekhov
1967: Oakland, CA | Huey P. Newton
1783: Boston | Belinda
Free Spirit
2022: New York City | Andrey Kurkov
1576: Aquitaine | Michel de Montaigne
1963: Accra | Kwame Nkrumah
c. 1884: Hartford, CT | Mark Twain
1991: Enugu | Ifeoma Okoye
1842: Marquesas Islands | Herman Melville
1922: Madras | Chakravarti Rajagopalachari
1982: New York City | Robin Morgan
c. 420 bc: Athens | The Polity of the Athenians
1891: Dublin | Oscar Wilde
1644: London | John Milton
1913: New York City | Randolph Bourne
c. 1807: Grasmere | William Wordsworth
1984: Oceania | George Orwell
c. 680: Rabban Shapur | Isaac of Nineveh
1804: Gonaïves | Jean-Jacques Dessalines
1938: Paris | Raymond Queneau
c. 108: Nicopolis | Epictetus
1877: Camden, NJ | Walt Whitman
1975: Durban | Nadine Gordimer
1765: Paris | Louis de Jaucourt
2024: United States | Ted Chiang
1896: New York City | Vivekananda
c. 1119: Prague | Cosmas of Prague
1785: Black Forest | Marquis de Sade
1938: Mexico City | André Breton, Diego Rivera, & Leon Trotsky
1837: East Boylston, MA | Angelina Grimké
1929: New York City | William Bolitho
1420: Nara | Zeami
c. 62: Rome | Seneca
1769: Dorchester, MA | John Adams
Free World
2017: Ann Arbor, MI | Elizabeth Anderson
c. 2550 bc: Abu Salabikh | Shuruppak
1936: Bombay | B.R. Ambedkar
1649: London | Charles I
1980: Bulawayo | Yvonne Vera
1879: Washington, DC | Chief Joseph
c. 1949: New York City | Langston Hughes
1762: Montmorency | Jean-Jacques Rousseau
c. 312 bc: Qi | Mencius
c. 1350: Sonian Forest | Jan van Ruysbroeck
1960: New York City | Hannah Arendt
1967: Toronto | Martin Luther King Jr.
c. 344 bc: Athens | Demosthenes
1874: Washington, DC | Richard Harvey Cain
1913: Hartford, CT | Emmeline Pankhurst
c. 1975: Saigon | Viet Thanh Nguyen
1888: Sils Maria | Friedrich Nietzsche
c. 830: Luoyang | Bai Juyi
1980: California | Alice Walker
1913: Cambridge | Arthur Quiller-Couch
1651: Paris | Thomas Hobbes
1907: Switzerland | Robert Walser
1774: Boston | Phillis Wheatley
1970: Somalia | Nuruddin Farah
1922: Lisbon | Fernando Pessoa
c. 1990: Soviet Union | Svetlana Alexievich
c. 1615: Lima | Felipe Guáman Poma de Ayala
1930: Washington, DC | Channing Pollock
1982: Johannesburg | Desmond Tutu
1789: London | Thomas Paine
1856: Paris | Alexis de Tocqueville
c. 420 bc: Eleusis | Euripides
FURTHER REMARKS
Essays
A Paradise for All | Astra Taylor
Our Medical Liberties | Nadja Durbach
Departments
Conversations | Spinoza, Weil, Roosevelt
Miscellany | Orcas, Witchcraft, Quiet Escape
Endnote: More Trouble Than It’s Worth | Lewis H. Lapham
Glossary | Copperstick, Manacle, Snare
Sources | Readings & Art