The Fall 2016 issue of Lapham’s Quarterly, Flesh, is on newsstands now. With original essays by Lewis H. Lapham, Noga Arikha, Lucy Ives, and Peter von Ziegesar; Voices in Time contributions from Arnobius the Elder, Barry Bonds, Harry Crews, Joris-Karl Huysmans, Helen Keller, Omar Khayyam, D.H. Lawrence, Jan Morris, Silvina Ocampo, the Marquis de Sade, Johann Winckelmann, and Émile Zola; and art by Caravaggio, Peter Paul Rubens, and many others.
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INTRODUCTORY
Program Notes | Among the Contributors
Map | Flow Chart
Preamble | Lewis H. Lapham, A Perishable Commodity
VOICES IN TIME
Appetites
2013: United Kingdom | Caroline Resident
c. 130: Rome | Marguerite Yourcenar
1755: Nöthnitz | Johann Winckelmann
c. 1935: Prague | Bohumil Hrabal
1552: Island of Gastrolaters | François Rabelais
2001: Germany | Bernd Jürgen Brandes & Armin Meiwes
1872: Paris | Émile Zola
c. 1400: Kalyana | Dharmaghosa
1979: Sweet Arrow Lake, PA | Maureen Gibbon
c. 303: Sicca Veneria | Arnobius the Elder
1960: United Kingdom | Elias Canetti
1967: Port Jefferson, NY | Robert Farrar Capon
c. 1082: Tabaristan | Kai Kaus ibn Iskandar
1959: Buenos Aires | Silvina Ocampo
1962: Ibadan | Wole Soyinka
1652: England | Eliza
1868: Paris | Comte de Lautréamont
c. 60: Boeotia | Plutarch
1773: New Zealand | James Cook
c. 1630: Naples | Giambattista Basile
c. 1932: Barcelona | Jean Genet
c. 170: Corinth | Lucius Apuleius
1785: Paris | Marquis de Sade
1,500,000,003,200,011: Congo | Denis Diderot
1935: Columbia, MO | John Williams
Metamorphoses
2012: London | Juliet Jacques
1884: Russia | Anton Chekhov
c. 1000: Knafaholar | Njál’s Saga
1962: Devon | Sylvia Plath
1952: New York City | Audre Lorde
1684: London | Richard Morton
427: Hippo | Saint Augustine
c. 1900: Kolomir | Isaac Bashevis Singer
c. 450 BC: Egypt | Herodotus
1906: Chicago | Upton Sinclair
1922: Prague | Franz Kafka
c. 2006: New York City | Alex Kuczynski
1887: Rochester, NY | John O. Roe
1991: Maryland | Lucille Clifton
1941: Bacon County, GA | Harry Crews
2007: Provincetown, MA | Jillian Weise
1986: Leonia, NJ | Robert F. Murphy
1908: Wrentham, MA | Helen Keller
c. 300: Antioch | Jacob the Deacon
c. 1910: Davos | Thomas Mann
2003: San Francisco | Barry Bonds & Jeff Nedrow
1937: Alexandria | Nawal El Saadawi
c. 1200: Denmark | William Shakespeare
1965: Georgia | Flannery O’Connor
1580: Bordeaux | Michel de Montaigne
Vital Signs
2013: London | Hilary Mantel
1437: Florence | Cennino Cennini
1952: Lyon | Frantz Fanon
1890: Tokyo | Junichiro Tanizaki
c. 500 BC: India | Verses of the Elder Monks
1953: Mount Everest | Jan Morris
1748: Leiden | Julien Offray de La Mettrie
c. 1868: Ruabon | Frank Harris
1943: Paris | Jean-Paul Sartre
416 BC: Athens | Plato
1636: Yiyang | Wang Wennan
c. 1120: Neyshabur | Omar Khayyam
c. 1950: Paris | Blaise Cendrars
1671: England | Jane Sharp
1790: Korea | An Chongbok
1891: Paris | Joris-Karl Huysmans
c. 1843: Indian Ocean | Herman Melville
1941: Lockport, NY | Joyce Carol Oates
1940: Saransk | Mikhail Bakhtin
c. 1250: England | “Signs of Death” Poem
c. 1921: Tevershall | D.H. Lawrence
147: Luoyang | Maid Wu
2009: Venice | Giorgio Agamben
c. 1950: Pittsburgh | Annie Dillard
1856: Brooklyn, NY | Walt Whitman
FURTHER REMARKS
Essays
Body and Soul | Noga Arikha
Reinventing Sex | Peter von Ziegesar
Sodom, LLC | Lucy Ives
Departments
Conversations | Kipnis, Cronenberg, Maimonides
Miscellany | Fat Thieves, Barley Men, Hot Fish
Glossary | Arse, Drutling, Sitzfleisch
Sources | Readings & Art