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Lapham’s Quarterly
@laphamsquart
A magazine of history and ideas.
New York
Joined October 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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    Lewis H. Lapham, the founder of Lapham’s Quarterly and one of the great American essayists, journalists, and editors, died in Italy during the night of July 23-24. He was eighty-nine. laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/lew…
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    “Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.” —Zora Neale Hurston, 1942 laphamsquarterly.org/discovery
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    Barbara Newhall Follett was a literary prodigy who published at 13 and disappeared at 25. bit.ly/16Oboad
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    Since we’re all stuck here….
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    The reading list of philosopher John Stuart Mill, ages 3-7. laphamsquarterly.org/youth/charts-g…
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    “If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.” — Dorothy Parker, born on this day in 1893. laphamsquarterly.org/contributors/p…
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    “A message exchanged in 640 between two bishops in what is now southern France provides a glimpse of early medieval travel restrictions, evidence that humans had a more nuanced understanding of how to fight pandemics much earlier than is commonly assumed.”
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    “I was born at a very early age. Before I had time to regret it, I was four and a half years old.” — Groucho Marx, born on this day in 1890. laphamsquarterly.org/contributors/m…
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    Notes in manuscripts and colophons made by medieval scribes and copyists. laphamsquarterly.org/communication/…