This week on The World in Time, John Jeremiah Sullivan brings us a piece of writing by Mark Twain that scholars considered lost. www.laphamsquarterly.org/content/epis...

In our July issue: Andrew Kay on OCD; Lewis Hyde on climate change and deep time; Pete McKenzie on Israel’s staunchest supporters in the Pacific; Lydia Davis on the art of observation; a reading from Jon Fosse; Charlie Lee on Harry Crews; and fiction from C. Mallon.

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“Lewis understood that without the past, we lose the ability to think productively or even understand the present.” Listen to the latest episode of The World in Time. www.laphamsquarterly.org/content/epis...

Listen to the first episode of the new season of The World in Time.

“This episode, my first behind the microphone, won’t be a conversation, but it will be a duet. I’ll be sharing the microphone with Lewis Lapham.”

“It’s more important than ever that this magazine survives. It acknowledges the importance of history and art and thought — all things that seem to be threatened now.” www.nytimes.com/2025/06/12/b...

Lapham’s Quarterly is coming back this summer. www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/l...

Join us one week from today (6/12) to celebrate our 175th anniversary: readings from Harmony Holiday, John Jeremiah Sullivan, and Jonathon Sturgeon at McNally Jackson Seaport at 6:30.
Afterparty at T.J. Byrnes to follow.

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"And this is why hydropathy was not like many of the other quack medical therapies of the not-quite-modern era. It did not involve any bad ideas." harpers.org/archive/2025...

I’m reading this fantastic piece by Jonathon Sturgeon in Harper’s.

I now have a fair amount of experience with Louisville. He captures many of its stunning nuances. Nowhere has felt closer to slavery to me. Not richmond (which was the leader until now). Not MS.

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“What did Faulkner mean when he called Twain ‘the father of American literature’?”

John Jeremiah Sullivan revisits Mark Twain’s legacy.

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“Jesus, Cooter, will you just listen to me? Bottom line, bottom line is, this girl invited me in the house, inside. And you know me, I always like seein where shit will go.”

New fiction from Sidik Fofana.

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“His offense: saving the damned with the melancholic gallantry of a real angel of history.”

Harmony Holiday reconstructs James Baldwin’s testimony in images.

“My mother and grandmother incubated us deep inside a book-­lined idyll sheltered from the Sturgeon line.”

Jonathon Sturgeon on murder in Kentuckiana.

In our 175th anniversary June issue: John Jeremiah Sullivan on the enigma of Mark Twain; Karl Ove Knausgaard on enchantment in the digital age; Harmony Holiday on James Baldwin; Jonathon Sturgeon on Kentuckiana killings; fiction from Sidik Fofana.

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“All confidences were respected. All secrets were locked safely away— tickalock—in the massive bosom of Doña Beatriz.”

A never-before-published story from Charles Portis.

We are delighted to announce that Lapham’s Quarterly will return later this year, thanks to our new home with the @hannaharendtcenter.bsky.social. www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/l...