Roundtable
Opinions and analysis from Lapham’s Quarterly writers and editors.
April 25, 2025
July 14, 2017
The Rest Is History
Brief histories of Prospect Park, anti-Catholic hysteria, and taxidermy.
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July 10, 2017
Lewis Lapham Reads “Petrified Forest”
Listen to the preamble to Fear, the Summer 2017 issue of Lapham’s Quarterly.
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July 07, 2017
The Rest Is History
A king’s jewelry, thousand-year-old concrete, and P.T. Barnum’s lasting legacy.
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July 05, 2017
Of Queens and Witches
While Elizabeth I sat on England’s throne until the age of sixty-nine, other aging women in Tudor England often found themselves accused of witchcraft.
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June 30, 2017
The Rest Is History
Victorians go camping, presidents invite the press home, and July 4 celebrants risk “patriotic tetanus.”
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June 27, 2017
Charlotte Brontë’s Teaching Career
How the novelist’s work as a governess shaped her worldview—and her writing.
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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.