Lapham’s Quarterly

A magazine of history and ideas.

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For a limited time, we are offering 40% off back issues and boxed sets, including selections drawn from Lewis Lapham's own list of essential themes: War, Money, Revolution, Climate, States of Mind, and more.

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Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again.
—Willa Cather, 1918

To endeavor to forget anyone is a certain way of thinking of nothing else.
—Jean de La Bruyère, 1688

Extracts: On Memory, live now on Substack. Link in reply.

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Read the full essay, adapted from her new book, Talking Classics: The Shock of the Old: https://t.co/nWzKSUrl1M

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"If you take modern visitors or television viewers away from the lofty “greats” of classical culture and show them the seedy bars or the family quarters of Pompeii and Herculaneum, they will almost always be taken aback by the familiarity."

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“What is the point of the ancient classics? Why should we bother about what people did two thousand years ago or more: what they made, wrote, and thought?”
—Mary Beard, from the new ep. of The World in Time.

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The envious die not once, but as often as the envied win applause.
—Baltasar Gracián, 1647

From hell’s heart I stab at thee; for hate’s sake I spit my last breath at thee.
—Herman Melville, 1851

Extracts: On Rivalry & Feud, live now on Substack. Link in reply.

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“‘There is a wisdom that is woe, but there is a woe that is madness’—to me, that summarizes much of life.”
— Yiyun Li, from the new ep. of The World in Time, on “The Try-Works” (Moby Dick, chapter 96).

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The Lapham's Quarterly SPRING SALE has begun:

For a limited time, we are offering 40% off back issues and boxed sets, including selections drawn from Lewis Lapham's own list of essential themes: War, Money, Revolution, Climate, States of Mind, and more.

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Every house: temple, empire, school.
—Joseph Joubert, 1800

Men are merriest when they are from home.
—William Shakespeare, 1599

Extracts: On Home, live now on Substack. Link in reply.

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Read "Whirlpool," adapted from @amayor's Mythopedia: A Brief Compendium of Natural History Lore, on our website now: https://t.co/rKriWLarpW

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On the new ep. of The World in Time, Adrienne Mayor (@amayor) on her new book: "Mythopedia: A Brief Compendium of Natural History Lore"—the “legends of the earth” recorded in oral traditions worldwide, and the science behind the phenomena limned therein.

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@JosephEdmundKe1 @amayor We can't say with certainty when the next issue, Energy, will appear in print, as it depends on fundraising. But you can read Lewis Lapham's preamble, as well as some of the essays and excerpted writing from the issue, on our website now: https://t.co/Mr2eNGtxhy

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On the new ep. of The World in Time, Adrienne Mayor (@amayor) on her new book: "Mythopedia: A Brief Compendium of Natural History Lore"—the “legends of the earth” recorded in oral traditions worldwide, and the science behind the phenomena limned therein.

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