Preamble The Sea Sea Change By Lewis H. Lapham The sea offers a particular kind of freedom, though it’s one that comes at a price. More
Preamble Technology Greeks Bearing Gifts By Simon Winchester From Antikythera to AI—tracking the labyrinthine path of technology’s progress. 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 States of War The Gulf of Time By Lewis H. Lapham An introduction to Lapham’s Quarterly. More
Preamble Time Captain Clock By Lewis H. Lapham From overtime to downtime, spending time to saving time, the uses and abuses of our minutes and days. More
Preamble Arts & Letters Lady in a Veil By Lewis H. Lapham Despite being told that art is somehow sacred, it’s better to take a naive delight in the thing itself. More