“Flesh,” the Fall 2016 issue of Lapham’s Quarterly, hits newsstands and the web on Tuesday, September 20, and it’s a meaty one (though not literally): adventures in virtual sex, Captain James Cook encountering some not-so-friendly cannibals, Helen Keller inventing a new language, and England’s first midwife offering childbirthing advice from the seventeenth century. Original essays cover the sex habits of a nineteenth-century experimental community and the regimented libertinism of the Marquis de Sade.
While you’ll have to wait a few more days to see (and touch) “Flesh,” we can offer a sneak peek in the form of “The Rise and Fall of Flesh,” one of the issue’s original Charts & Graphs.
