Kenko | Lapham’s Quarterly
Born into a family of Shinto priests, Yoshida Kenko secured a place at court as a poet before taking Buddhist orders in 1324.| Lapham’s Quarterly
Born into a family of Shinto priests, Yoshida Kenko secured a place at court as a poet before taking Buddhist orders in 1324.| Lapham’s Quarterly
It seems a desirable thing to leave for long years behind one an unburied name. But a man is not perforce superior because he is of noble family or high degree. Foolish and unskillful people, thanks t| Lapham’s Quarterly
One year after assuming the pastorship of a Baptist church in Montgomery, Alabama, Martin Luther King Jr. was selected by the city’s black leaders in 1955 to head up the protest of Rosa Parks’ arrest.| Lapham’s Quarterly
During his forty-eight-year reign at the FBI, J. Edgar Hoover battled communism, kept secret files on Americans, and spied on Martin Luther King Jr.| Lapham’s Quarterly
In his first collection of essays, Notes of a Native Son, Baldwin observed, “The story of my childhood is the usual bleak fantasy, and we can dismiss it with the restrained observation that I certainly would not consider living it again.”| Lapham’s Quarterly
The latest episode of The World in Time.| Lapham’s Quarterly
On the literature and politics of charisma.| Lapham’s Quarterly
Roman baths, futurism, and a successor ideology.| Lapham’s Quarterly
An excerpt from “Jimmy.”| Lapham’s Quarterly
Soviet satire, Tammany Hall, and universal basic income.| Lapham’s Quarterly
Bruce Springsteen, <em>The Wizard of Oz</em>, and wild horses.| Lapham’s Quarterly
A reading from <em>Glad to the Brink of Fear: A Portrait of Ralph Waldo Emerson</em>.| Lapham’s Quarterly
Masculinity, courtship, and dual-abuse.| Lapham’s Quarterly
Brutalism, pop art, and an exorcist.| Lapham’s Quarterly
A reading from a new translation of <em>The Seafarer</em>.| Lapham’s Quarterly
Freckles, abortion undergrounds, and human hobbits.| Lapham’s Quarterly
When Melville died at the age of seventy-two in 1891, one obituary noted that “even his own generation has long thought him dead.”| Lapham’s Quarterly
At the age of seventeen, Nathaniel Hawthorne mused to his mother about the possibility of “relying for support upon my pen.”| Lapham’s Quarterly
The latest episode of The World in Time.| Lapham’s Quarterly
Lewis H. Lapham speaks with the author of Up from the Depths: Herman Melville, Lewis Mumford, and Rediscovery in Dark Times.| Lapham’s Quarterly
An essay from <em>What Nails It</em>.| Lapham’s Quarterly
Polenta, a penis worm, and the subterranean homesick blues.| Lapham’s Quarterly
On Hannah Arendt’s “Civil Disobedience.”| Lapham’s Quarterly
Chinatown, the Renaissance, and the World Wide Web.| Lapham’s Quarterly
Herman Melville’s cosmic cetology.| Lapham’s Quarterly
As told to Aidan Flax-Clark.| Lapham’s Quarterly
A glass gown, a wild party hostess, and a spike-toothed worm.| Lapham’s Quarterly
A grand tour through the essays of Lewis H. Lapham.| Lapham’s Quarterly
Augustine experienced his conversion while in a garden in Milan in 386.| Lapham’s Quarterly
Drugs, prank calls, and swamp spirits.| Lapham’s Quarterly
A reading from Daniel Mendelsohn’s new translation of <em>The Odyssey</em>.| Lapham’s Quarterly
A poem from <em>Smother</em>.| Lapham’s Quarterly
Two cents from Virginia Woolf, Jane Austen, and Ben Franklin.| Lapham’s Quarterly
A long-lost obituary of Mark Twain.| Lapham’s Quarterly
Samuel Clemens signed his first newspaper article “Mark Twain” in 1863, publishing two years later this light piece and “Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog.”| Lapham’s Quarterly
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The magazine will relaunch under the stewardship of Bard College and its Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities in 2025.| Lapham’s Quarterly
While working as a patent clerk in 1905, Albert Einstein published four papers in Annals of Physics, which, among other things, explained the mathematical basis for special relativity and pu| Lapham’s Quarterly
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[drop_cap]O[/drop_cap]wing to a combination of financial challenges over the past several years, the Board of Directors of the American Agora Foundation, the organization that publ| Lapham’s Quarterly
How English words evolved on a foreign continent.| Lapham’s Quarterly
