Lapham’s Quarterly Summer 2019: Happiness (fifth and FINAL comments)

[CATEGORIES: Literature, Lapham's Quarterly, Reading, Book Review] [Click HERE to see my previous posts referencing Lapham’s Quarterly.] [Some of LQ’s contents are available free.] [L.Q. cover, quotes, and images from Lapham’s Quarterly Summer 2019: Happiness, except where noted otherwise.][Right-click on a photo may give the option to open it separately.] [New to Lapham's Quarterly? See …

Lapham’s Quarterly Special Issue: A History of FAKE NEWS

Fake News is all the rage these days. As this 8 1/2 x 11”, 95-page issue shows, fake news is not new.  From Plato and Virgil through Machiavelli, Swift, Flaubert, Twain and Nietzsche to Woolf, Sayers, Goebbels (Gerbils?!) and Gore (Vidal), everyone has something to say. 29 historical extracts, 4 full essays, and a brief …

Lapham’s Quarterly Spring 2009: Crimes & Punishments

[CATEGORIES: Literature, Lapham's Quarterly, Reading, Book Review] [Click HERE to see my previous posts referencing Lapham's Quarterly.] [Some of LQ’s contents are available free.] [All photos or web clips are of pages in the C & P issue of L.Q.] The crimes and punishments presented, some real and some fiction, are equally abhorrent.  The nearer to …

Lapham’s Quarterly Spring 2014: Revolutions, partial review three

[CATEGORIES: Literature, Lapham's Quarterly, Reading, Book Review] [Click HERE or HERE to see my previous posts reviewing or referencing Lapham's Quarterly.] [Some of LQ’s contents are available free.  See Archives on that page for back issues.] The main part of any Lapham's Quarterly is Voices In Time, excerpts from history about the current theme.  Usually in three …

Lapham’s Quarterly Spring 2014: Revolutions, partial review two

[CATEGORIES: Literature, Lapham's Quarterly, Reading, Book Review] [Click HERE for Spring 2014: Revolutions, partial review one.] [Click HERE to see my previous posts reviewing or referencing Lapham's Quarterly.][Some of LQ’s contents are available free.  See Archives on that page for back issues.] L.Q. posts are for READERS.  And writers, who read of course.  I try to keep …