Roundtable
Opinions and analysis from Lapham’s Quarterly writers and editors.
May 19, 2024
July 26, 2023
One Can Scarcely Help Clarifying Him
On Fyodor Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov.
Read MoreJuly 24, 2023
Wake Up and Smell the Coffee
Meet the feuding twin sisters who popularized the American advice column.
Read MoreJuly 21, 2023
The Rest Is History
Barbenheimer, inherited furniture, and the train wrecks of the aughts.
Read MoreJuly 19, 2023
A Surprising Dearth of Spectacled Bears
Real and legendary bears in pre-Columbian South America.
Read MoreJuly 17, 2023
A Likely Story Indeed
On Lewis Carroll’s photographic creation of Alice Liddell.
Read MoreJuly 14, 2023
The Rest Is History
Slave portraits, craft fetishism, and the Boxer Rebellion.
Read MoreJuly 12, 2023
The Labor of Polyps and Persons
The meaning of coral jewelry in nineteenth-century America.
Read MoreJuly 10, 2023
Game Changer
On the mismatched sporting advice of Clair Bee and John R. Tunis.
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Monumental Mistakes
2023:
Fitness instructor carves his girlfriend’s name into the Colosseum.
c. 1850:
Thompson of Sunderland makes his mark on Pompey’s pillar.
Revolutionary Lovebirds
2023:
Writers on strike search for romance at the picket line.
c. 1945:
Young communists engage in party matchmaking.