Lapham’s Quarterly

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On the latest ep. of The World in Time, a conversation with essayist Anne Fadiman: her new collection, the history of the essay from Montaigne to the present, a magazine from Antarctica, the anxiety of (familial) influence, and more. Listen now (links in the replies).

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Of all the creatures that breathe and creep on the surface of the earth, none is more to be pitied than man. —Homer, c. 750 BC Alas! We are ridiculous animals. —Horace Walpole, 1777 Extracts: On Animals, live now on Substack. Link in reply.

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In this week's @NewYorker: the Melvillean outings of @MaryNorrisTNY, including a visit to Melville's grave with LQ's acting editor, @donovanhohn. (Audio version of their excursion coming soon from LQ's World in Time podcast.) Link to Mary's piece in the reply.

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The sea serves the pirate as well as the trader. —Prudentius, c. 405 Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand. —Aphra Behn, 1677 Extracts: On Trade, live now on Substack. Link in reply.

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@atossaaraxia, in the new ep. of The World in Time: "Onshore and offshore don't really refer to shores or land. They just refer to legal regimes. A free port will be offshore, and if you walk ten feet through a gate, you’re back onshore. It’s fiction." Listen now (link in reply).

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I’m Nobody! Who are you? Are you—Nobody—too? —Emily Dickinson, 1861 How sweet it is to have people point and say, “There he is.” —Persius, c. 60 Extracts: On Celebrity, live now on Substack. Link in reply.

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Luck takes the step that no one sees. —Publilius Syrus, c. 50 BC We do not suffer by accident. —Jane Austen, 1813 Extracts: On Luck, live now on Substack. Link in reply.

From our Extracts on Youth: Child, what you seek is nowhere to be found, your beloved is lost when you avert your eyes: that image of an image, without substance, arrives with you and with you it remains, and it will leave when you leave—if you can! —Ovid (Link in reply.)

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In archival audio from 2013, Aidan Flax-Clark interviews Lewis H. Lapham about his childhood reading of Moby-Dick, and about a doomed shipwreck hunt in the early 1960s that Lapham wrote about for The Saturday Evening Post. laphamsquarterly.org/content/episod…

This week’s episode of The World in Time is the first in a series of episodes about The Sea (Summer 2013). Donovan Hohn speaks with Daniel Mendelsohn about his new translation of The Odyssey. laphamsquarterly.org/content/episod…