http://laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/ Opinions and Analytis from Lapham's Quarterly writers and editors en Copyright 2012 Wed, 18 Apr 2012 10:17:00 -0500 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/?v=4.23-en http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss By Angela Serratore. “The post-office system offers a facility for clandestine correspondence which no respectable father or mother on the European side of the Atlantic would think of without a shudder, if http://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/roundtable/post-secrets.php http://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/roundtable/post-secrets.php Roundtable Wed, 18 Apr 2012 10:17:00 -0500 By Moira Donovan. Imagine a world without organized information. 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The Means of Communication issue of Lapham’s Quarterly contains a fabulous collection of complains and marginal notes by the monks assigned to copy manuscripts in the era before the http://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/roundtable/living-in-the-margins.php http://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/roundtable/living-in-the-margins.php Roundtable Thu, 22 Mar 2012 12:37:48 -0500 By Shaj Mathew. Borders bookstores around the country have all but shuttered. Magazine newsstand sales have dropped. And Steve Jobs had put it bluntly: “people don’t read anymore.” The good news? The http://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/roundtable/predicting-their-own-demise.php http://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/roundtable/predicting-their-own-demise.php Roundtable Fri, 23 Dec 2011 13:19:16 -0500 By Colin Dickey. Van Gogh’s The Night Café is an image of destitution, its garish colors unable to hide its bleak desperation. 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It was an evening of homage to http://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/roundtable/late-nights-at-the-congress-of-vienna.php http://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/roundtable/late-nights-at-the-congress-of-vienna.php Roundtable Wed, 13 Jul 2011 11:48:11 -0500 By Stefany Anne Golberg. Mary Shelley was nineteen when she wrote Frankenstein. We wonder how a teenager could come up with this uncanny tale of a young student who, becoming obsessed with the http://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/roundtable/the-monster-ate-vegetables.php http://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/roundtable/the-monster-ate-vegetables.php Roundtable Mon, 11 Jul 2011 10:54:38 -0500 By Rebecca Federman. 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