Preamble Travel Grand Tour By Lewis H. Lapham A look at the history of the Grand Tour, and at the travels of the imagination. More
Preamble Death Memento Mori By Lewis H. Lapham Learning how to die, as Michel de Montaigne once rightly said, is the unlearning of how to be a slave. More
Preamble Lines of Work The Servant Problem By Lewis H. Lapham It is man’s nature to be doing something, or at least to fancy that he’s doing something, but to what purpose? More
Preamble Education Hearts and Minds By Paul Tough What we fight about when we fight about schools. More
Preamble States of Mind The Enchanted Loom By Lewis H. Lapham On the mind’s ability to reinterpret the past and the tenth anniversary of Lapham’s Quarterly. More