Lapham’s Quarterly
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A magazine of history and ideas. Our latest issue is Energy.
I am now the age of Ahab, who, in chapter 132 of Moby Dick, tells Starbuck that he started whaling as “a boy-harpooneer of eighteen” and has spent “forty years on the pitiless sea.” I, too, have reached my implacability-and-fixed-purpose era. www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/a...
Another Cruise | Caleb Crain
Re-reading Moby Dick at Ahab’s age.
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November 10, 2025 at 4:55 PM
I am now the age of Ahab, who, in chapter 132 of Moby Dick, tells Starbuck that he started whaling as “a boy-harpooneer of eighteen” and has spent “forty years on the pitiless sea.” I, too, have reached my implacability-and-fixed-purpose era. www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/a...
This week on the podcast, Donovan Hohn speaks with Elizabeth Kolbert about her new book, “Life on a Little-Known Planet: Dispatches from a Changing World.” www.laphamsquarterly.org/content/epis...
Episode 15: Elizabeth Kolbert
The latest episode of The World in Time.
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October 10, 2025 at 8:07 PM
This week on the podcast, Donovan Hohn speaks with Elizabeth Kolbert about her new book, “Life on a Little-Known Planet: Dispatches from a Changing World.” www.laphamsquarterly.org/content/epis...
Read an excerpt from “Gotham at War: A History of New York City from 1933 to 1945.” www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/a...
Art of This Century | Mike Wallace
Peggy Guggenheim’s Manhattan project.
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October 8, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Read an excerpt from “Gotham at War: A History of New York City from 1933 to 1945.” www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/a...