The Spring 2018 issue of Lapham’s Quarterly, Water, is now on newsstands. With original essays by Donovan Hohn, Philip Ball, Nicolas Pelham, and Sarah Ruden; Voices in Time contributions by Rachel Carson, François-René de Chateaubriand, Bernard De Voto, Annie Dillard, Loren Eiseley, Gabriel García Márquez, Alexander von Humboldt, Scholastique Mukasonga, Paracelsus, Tachibana no Toshitsuna, Mark Twain, and others; and art by Thomas Eakins, Kuniyoshi, and others.
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INTRODUCTORY
Cover | Tree in the Sea #5, Botany Bay, Edisto, South Carolina, by Carolyn Monastra, 2014
Program Notes | Among the Contributors
Map | Aqueous Solutions
Preamble | Donovan Hohn, Watermarks
VOICES IN TIME
Wellspring
2016: Standing Rock | Louise Erdrich
1800: Lake Valencia | Alexander von Humboldt
1857: Mississippi River | Mark Twain
1357: London | Letter Books of the City of London
1959: Clear Lake, CA | Rachel Carson
c. 1800 bc: Egypt | Hymn to the Nile
1905: Yuma County, AZ | W.J. McGee
c. 1280: Yangtze River | Marco Polo
1770: Bath | Tobias Smollett
1961: Paris | Michel Foucault
c. 170: Hades | Lucian
1958: São Paulo | Carolina Maria de Jesus
1894: Lourdes | Émile Zola
c. 1230: Benediktbeuern | Carmina Burana
c. 1880: Colombia | Gabriel García Márquez
1854: London | John Snow
1988: Kaveri River | Ambai
2017: Marshall Islands | Jeff Goodell
c. 1500 bc: Punjab | Rigveda
1942: Henan | Theodore H. White & Annalee Jacoby
1675: Delft | Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
1979: Rwanda | Scholastique Mukasonga
c. 1535: Europe | Paracelsus
1996: Hamden, CT | Huynh Sanh Thong
c. 1843: Lafourche Parish, LA | Solomon Northup
c. 820: Chang’an | Han Yu
1954: Cambridge, MA | Bernard De Voto
2015: Flint, MI | City Water Advisory
Ebb & Flow
2015: Mexico City | Jonathan Watts
1893: Sicily | James Frazer
c. 2040 bc: Ur | Ur-Namma
1869: Washington, DC | Cyrus Thomas
2005: Beit HaEmek | Elias Khoury
1558: London | William Bullein
1937: Los Angeles | Robert Towne
1326: Syria | Ibn Battuta
1552: Bahamas | Bartolomé de Las Casas
2003: New York City | David Grann
c. 350 bc: Athens | Aristotle
1990: Istanbul | Orhan Pamuk
c. 500: China | Li Daoyuan
1837: Lake Huron | Anna Jameson
2000: Cochabamba | Oscar Olivera
c. 1050: Heian-kyo | Tachibana no Toshitsuna
1903: Mojave Desert | Mary Austin
1943: The Fens | Graham Swift
c. 640: Nation of Women | Wu Cheng’en
1904: London | William Butler Yeats
c. 240: Pontus | Gregory of Nyssa
1974: Tinker Creek | Annie Dillard
2010: Antarctica | Henry Pollack
1951: Qabab | Wilfred Thesiger
1988: Buergete | Anne Carson
1791: Niagara Peninsula | François-René de Chateaubriand
2018: Cape Town | C.A. Davids
Deluge
2140: New York City | Kim Stanley Robinson
1848: London | Punch Magazine
c. 1957: Utah | Edward Abbey
c. 2500 bc: Sumer | Epic of Gilgamesh
1927: Vicksburg, MS | William Faulkner
1789: Iceland | John Thomas Stanley
1993: Aswân | Idris Ali
1717: London | The Daily Courant
1997: Ithaca, NY | A.R. Ammons
c. 97: Rome | Sextus Julius Frontinus
371: Moselle River | Decimus Magnus Ausonius
2009: Fiji | Anna Lenzer
1846: Concord, MA | Henry David Thoreau
1992: Venice | Joseph Brodsky
1679: Nanking | Wang Gai
1986: Danube River | Claudio Magris
c. 4000 bc: Gulf of Carpentaria | Alexis Wright
1977: Malibu, CA | Joan Didion
1625: London | Francis Bacon
1989: Simmesport, LA | John McPhee
c. 1850: Dawnland | Abenaki Legend
2005: Bois Sauvage, MS | Jesmyn Ward
1850: Nile River | Gustave Flaubert
1957: Platte River | Loren Eiseley
c. 1165 bc: Latium | Virgil
2011: Sussex | Olivia Laing
FURTHER REMARKS
Essays
A New Ark | Nicolas Pelham
A Compassionate Substance | Philip Ball
The God of Running Water | Sarah Ruden
Departments
Conversations | Pliny, Tagore, Adcock
Miscellany | Snail Fever, Rock Errata, Walden Stew
Glossary | Backswimmer, Hydropot, Seltzer
Sources | Readings & Art