The Spring 2020 issue of Lapham’s Quarterly, Scandal, is now on newsstands. With original essays by Jack Beatty, Eric Jager, Nancy Lemann, and Ron Rosenbaum; Voices in Time contributions by Simone de Beauvoir, Anton Chekhov, Janet Flanner, Héloïse, Onyinye Ihezukwu, Petronius, W.T. Stead, Anthony Trollope, Mario Vargas Llosa, Tennessee Williams, and others; and art by Honoré Daumier, William Hogarth, and others.
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Cover | Aquamanile of a medieval morality tale in which Phyllis, mistress of Alexander the Great, rides Aristotle, South Netherlandish, c. 1400
Program Notes | Among the Contributors
Map | When You Gotta Go
Preamble | Ron Rosenbaum, Hidden Agendas
VOICES IN TIME
Smoke
2012: San Francisco | Christopher Lehane, Mark Fabiani, and Bill Guttentag
c. 160: Greece | Lucian
1883: Moscow | Anton Chekhov
374: Milan | Jacobus De Voragine
1910: London | W.T. Stead
1715: Versailles | Saint-Simon
1802: Richmond, VA | James Thomson Callender
1952: Priory Dean | Marghanita Laski
c. 320 bc: Athens | Theophrastus
c. 1350: Lombardy | Giovanni Boccaccio
1813: Derbyshire | Jane Austen
1959: Paris | Kenneth Anger
1777: London | Richard Brinsley Sheridan
1879: Utterden | Anthony Trollope
c. 1000: Heian-kyo | Sei Shonagon
1796: Boston | Judith Sargent Murray
1828: London | William Hazlitt
1664: Paris | Molière
1934: England | Evelyn Waugh
1873: Hartford, CT | Mark Twain
1308: Poitiers | Knights Templar Accusations
1991: Jamaica | Hazel D. Campbell
c. 1174 bc: Carthage | Virgil
Fire
2014: Nigeria | Onyinye Ihezukwu
1782: Paris | Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
c. 1935: London | Quentin Crisp
1775: Seoul | Yi Tongmu
1960: Paris | Simone de Beauvoir
1925: White Plains, NY | Baltimore Afro-American
c. 1500 bc: Nuzi | Trial of Kushshiharbe
c. 1400: Mecca | The Thousand and One Nights
1818: Paris | Honoré de Balzac
1513: San Casciano | Niccolò Machiavelli
1918: Eastwold | Rose Allatini
c. 750: Basra | Ibn al-Muqaffa
c. 1990: Lima | Mario Vargas Llosa
1673: London | John Wilmot, earl of Rochester
1907: New York City | E.L. Doctorow
c. 1010: Ono | Murasaki Shikibu
1999: Cape Town | J.M. Coetzee
1897: Paris | Émile Zola
c. 600 bc: Greece | Aesop
c. 205: Carthage | Tertullian
1855: London | George Eliot
1604: Vienna | William Shakespeare
Ash
2019: Boston | Boris Kachka
c. 1810: Korea | Chong Yagyong
c. 1794: Paris | Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort
1905: New York City | Edith Wharton
c. 350 bc: Chu | Strategies of the Warring States
1953: Los Angeles | James Ellroy
c. 60: Rome | Petronius
1872: Washington, DC | Charles Sumner
c. 5000 bc: Viratnagar | Mahabharata
1945: Paris | Janet Flanner
1768: London | William Blackstone
c. 406 bc: Colonus | Sophocles
1906: Hawarden | E.D. Morel
c. 1494: Cognac | Marguerite de Navarre
1958: New Orleans | Tennessee Williams
c. 1133: Ferreux-Quincey | Héloïse
c. 1673: Bath | Joseph Glanvill
1785: Paris | Antal Szerb
1976: Ponce | Rosario Ferré
1032: Sahrajt | Cairo Genizah
1896: Reading | Oscar Wilde
324 bc: Athens | Plutarch
1879: Rio de Janeiro | Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
FURTHER REMARKS
Essays
The Woman in Black | Eric Jager
Exquisite Scandal | Nancy Lemann
The Cleopatra’s Nose of 1914 | Jack Beatty
Departments
Conversations | Matthew Paris, Singapore Parliament, Maya Angelou
Miscellany | Herostratic Fame, Hobby Lobby, Spinhuis
Endnote: Fatted Calf | Lewis H. Lapham
Glossary | Branks, Oop, Struggle Session
Sources | Readings & Art