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Lapham’s Quarterly

The World’s Greatest Outlaw

The life of Samuel Johnson, would-be attorney-at-law

Dec 10, 2018

The World’s Greatest Outlaw

Dec 10, 2018

How to Think Like a Medieval Monk

Self-help for your mind from centuries ago

Dec 6, 2018

How to Think Like a Medieval Monk

Dec 6, 2018

The Derangements

How fasting rewired my brain

Dec 4, 2018

The Derangements

Dec 4, 2018

In Search of Fear

Notes from a high-wire artist

Nov 29, 2018

In Search of Fear

Nov 29, 2018

The Vanishing Pugilist and the Poet

The marriage of twentieth-century avant-gardists Arthur Cravan and Mina Loy was blissfully happy — until his mysterious disappearance

Nov 27, 2018

The Vanishing Pugilist and the Poet

Nov 27, 2018

The Person in the Ape

A history of humans trying and failing to understand the minds of apes

Nov 23, 2018

The Person in the Ape

Nov 23, 2018

The Ghost and the Princess

The correspondence of René Descartes and Princess Elisabeth of Bohemia — a debate about mind, soul, and immortality

Nov 15, 2018

The Ghost and the Princess

Nov 15, 2018

Sight Unseen

A neighborhood along the Underground Railroad

Nov 13, 2018

Sight Unseen

Nov 13, 2018

Castles in Air

The American democracy and dream are the building of castles in air. Whither goeth the one so goeth the other, these days up in smoke and…

Nov 12, 2018

Castles in Air

Nov 12, 2018

Deeper Than Deep

David Reich’s genetics lab unveils our prehistoric past

Nov 8, 2018

Deeper Than Deep

Nov 8, 2018

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