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Lapham’s Quarterly

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A magazine of history and ideas.

New York Katılım Ekim 2009
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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. Link in reply.
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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. Link in reply.
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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). Link in reply.
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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. Link in reply.
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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: laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/whi…
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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. Link in reply.

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@laphamsquart @amayor Hi there, I was (am?) a subscriber to LQ - can we expect a new edition soon?
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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. Link in reply.
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The most fitting occupation for a civilized man is to do nothing. —Théophile Gautier, c. 1835 He that would eat the nut must crack the shell. —Plautus, c. 200 BC Extracts: On Lines of Work, live now on Substack. Link in reply.
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Read "The Tree House," adapted from @robertmoor_'s In Trees: An Exploration, on LQ's website now: laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/tre…
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On the new ep. of The World in Time, a conversation with Robert Moor: his latest book (In Trees: An Exploration), the arborescence of the brain, encounters with a tree-climbing expert and a bonsai artist, and the evolutionary history of humanity and trees. Link in reply.

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