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- The Early History of Counting https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/early-history-counting 18 comments
- Humans being confounded by color photography https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/new-look-same-great-look 18 comments
- The last days of William Blake https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/god-has-beautiful-mansion-me-elsewhere 11 comments
- Seizing the Means of Audio Production https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/seizing-means-audio-production 13 comments
- Aldous Huxley insisted “Crome Yellow” was fiction. Ottoline Morrell disagreed https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/scene-stealer 10 comments
- Studying the Script: Finding Chinese inscriptions on turtle shells https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/studying-script 3 comments
- Following the oud through the history of Armenian music https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/variations-theme 3 comments
- What driveling times are these! Georgian grumblings on an age of decline https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/what-driveling-times-are-these 18 comments
- Merlin's Owl (2003) https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/merlins-owl 2 comments
- In the Beginning, There Were Taxes https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/beginning-there-were-taxes 74 comments
- Ubiquitous Medieval Pigs https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/ubiquitous-medieval-pigs 19 comments
- Watch Out: Music served as a through line during Zimbabwe’s fight for democracy https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/watch-out 2 comments
- How Napoleon Bonaparte’s delayed funeral came to be https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/bring-him-home 2 comments
- An Inflammation of Place https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/inflammation-place 2 comments
- The town's so full of these confounded dials (195 BCE) https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/time/hacked-days 55 comments
- Before the East India Company https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/east-india-company 60 comments
- I Do Not Marry a Married Man https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/i-do-not-marry-married-man 66 comments
- Hell Breaks Loose https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/happiness/hell-breaks-loose 14 comments
- Vulgar Bodies and Nasty Trades https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/vulgar-bodies-and-nasty-trades 11 comments
- Egil the Mean: The violent backstory of a Viking poet https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/egil-mean 3 comments
- The beginnings of the end of private life in the late nineteenth century https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/defining-privacy-and-then-getting-rid-it?page=all 2 comments
- The Cross-Examined Life: Socrates Debates the Laws https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/cross-examined-life 8 comments
- “Study Death Always”: Seneca’s advice for living centered on dying https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/study-death-always 106 comments
- W.E.B. Du Bois on the beauty of sorrow songs (1903) https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/music/unforgettable 6 comments
- Petrified Forest http://www.laphamsquarterly.org/fear/petrified-forest 16 comments
- In Search of Fear http://laphamsquarterly.org/fear/search-fear 2 comments
- Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness in the age of surveillance http://www.laphamsquarterly.org/spies/open-inspection 26 comments
- Take Nothing, Leave Nothing: On being banned from the world’s most remote island http://laphamsquarterly.org/travel/take-nothing-leave-nothing 110 comments
- Lapham's Quarterly http://www.laphamsquarterly.org/ 9 comments
- (2005) Kurt Vonnegut draws the shapes of stories at the blackboard https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/arts-letters/blackboard 70 comments books
- Kurt Vonnegut diagrams the shapes of stories. http://www.laphamsquarterly.org/arts-letters/blackboard 78 comments books
- When Women Ruled Fashion http://www.laphamsquarterly.org/fashion/when-women-ruled-fashion 7 comments history
- Vanishing Act - The story of a twelve year old novelist and her subsequent disappearance http://laphamsquarterly.org/celebrity/vanishing-act 7 comments books
- There are really only two major players left in the book business, Amazon and Google. Everyone else is trying to figure out the best way to go bankrupt. http://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/roundtable/the-late-word.php 69 comments technology
- Thanks to the work of Harvey Washington Wiley, his valiant poison squads, and a host of other crusaders, we don’t fear being killed by arsenic-dyed candy or formaldehyde-improved milk, as we once did. http://www.laphamsquarterly.org/essays/death-in-the-pot.php?page=all 10 comments history
- "Barnum knew that America was a nation of believers who, thanks to their pragmatism, didn’t actually believe in much of anything, although they said that they did." http://www.laphamsquarterly.org/reconsiderations/hatching-monsters.php?page=all 3 comments history
- Vanishing Act - A fairy tale, a tragedy and a still-unresolved mystery of a child genius http://www.laphamsquarterly.org/essays/vanishing-act.php?page=all 11 comments books
- Kurt Vonnegut at the Blackboard http://www.laphamsquarterly.org/voices-in-time/kurt-vonnegut-at-the-blackboard.php?page=all 21 comments books
- Dickens in Lagos - To understand life in Lagos, it helps to read Dickens, and vice-versa. The great cities of the developing world are a century or two behind the West, full of the colour and characters of 19th-century novels http://www.laphamsquarterly.org/essays/dickens-in-lagos.php?page=all 3 comments worldnews
- Think you know who the highest paid sportsman of all-time is? I bet you have no idea. http://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/roundtable/greatest-of-all-time.php 7 comments sports
- Since we have Chomsky and Bukowski at the top I thought I'd add in a little Kurt Vonnegut: "I want to share with you something I’ve learned. I’ll draw it on the blackboard behind me so you can follow more easily" http://www.laphamsquarterly.org/voices-in-time/kurt-vonnegut-at-the-blackboard.php 4 comments books
Linking pages
- Lewis Lapham’s Antidote to the Age of BuzzFeed | Arts & Culture| Smithsonian Magazine http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/lewis-laphams-antidote-to-the-age-of-buzzfeed-82203134/?all%3Fno-ist= 1 comment
- How the Internet Fails Us – Mother Jones http://motherjones.com/media/2012/04/lewis-lapham-internet-language 0 comments
- Lewis Lapham’s Antidote to the Age of BuzzFeed | Arts & Culture| Smithsonian Magazine https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/lewis-laphams-antidote-to-the-age-of-buzzfeed-82203134/ 0 comments