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
Lewis Mumford took classes at, but never received a degree from, Columbia University and the New School for Social Research, among other schools.| 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
A lost passage, now found.| 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
At the age of twelve in 1824, Charles Dickens went to work in a factory while his father went to a debtors’ prison.| Lapham’s Quarterly
Female friendship, a public toilet, and a traveling merchant.| Lapham’s Quarterly
“Lewis understood that without the past, we lose the ability to think productively or even understand the present.”| Lapham’s Quarterly
In memory of Lewis H. Lapham.| Lapham’s Quarterly
Pockets, peanuts, and poetry.| Lapham’s Quarterly
In memory of Lewis H. Lapham.| Lapham’s Quarterly
A reading list from a 2023 Cundill History Prize finalist.| Lapham’s Quarterly
August 08, 2025| Lapham’s Quarterly
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
