"Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference." The Road Not Taken, by Robert Frost
[CATEGORIES: Literature, Lapham's Quarterly, Reading, Book Review, Medicine] [Click HERE to see my previous posts referencing Lapham's Quarterly.] [Some of LQ’s contents are available free.] [L.Q. cover, art, and banner fro L.Q. Fall 2009: Medicine.] Medicine. Published Fall 2009 but current in that it spans over 2,000 years of thought on the subject. It's coincidental … Continue reading Lapham’s Quarterly Fall 2009: Medicine
[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 pictures courtesy L.Q.] LITERATURE! It's what's for dinner. And breakfast and lunch. What better on which to feast than fragments of thought and insight from great thinkers throughout history. Yes, they … Continue reading Lapham’s Quarterly Spring 2015: Swindle & Fraud
[CATEGORIES: Literature, Lapham's Quarterly, Reading, Book Review, Travel, Photography, Travel Photography] [Click HERE to see my previous posts referencing Lapham's Quarterly.] [Some of LQ’s contents are available free.] [All photos are mine, L.Q. cover courtesy L.Q.] A mix of travel literature and photography. Hopefully one or the other will be appealing. I trust Travel will be … Continue reading Lapham’s Quarterly Summer 2009: Travel
[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 … Continue reading 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 Foreigners issue of L.Q., except Pogo of course.] Superb, excellent, outstanding. These are my most-used adjectives for things that are such … Continue reading Lapham’s Quarterly Winter 2015: Foreigners
[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 are of pages in the Eros issue of L.Q.] SEX! Now that I have your attention, this is the Eros issue. According to Wikipedia he is the god of … Continue reading Lapham’s Quarterly Winter 2009: Eros
SIX out of five stars!! (That's not easy but it's not the Math issue. Read further.) [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.] [Click on photos to enlarge, zoom, and in many cases see camera info.] Wed. 10/22/2014: … Continue reading Lapham’s Quarterly Fall 2008: Ways Of Learning
Perception is reality. (Isn't it? Sometimes?) Time is a ring. A year of time is a ring, that is. It stands vertical as though one were facing it and the year proceeds counter-clockwise (of course), from right to left over the top of the ring, down the left side arc, across the bottom arc, and … Continue reading Lapham’s Quarterly Fall 2014: Time
[CATEGORIES: Literature, Lapham's Quarterly, Reading, Book Review, Photography] [Click HERE to see my previous posts referencing Lapham's Quarterly.] [Some of LQ’s contents are available free.] [All snapshots (and they're only that) poorly taken with an iPad2 from this issue of Lapham's Quarterly. Sorry photo people! Click to zoom.] L.Q. posts are for inquiring minds and … Continue reading Lapham’s Quarterly Winter 2011: Celebrity
[CATEGORIES: Literature, Lapham's Quarterly, Reading, Book Review, Photography] [Click HERE to see my previous posts referencing Lapham's Quarterly.] [Some of LQ’s contents are available free.] [Click on photos to enlarge, zoom, and in many cases see camera info.] My marathon pre-view/re-view of the Book of Nature issue finally comes to a conclusion. Will our coexistence with … Continue reading Lapham’s Quarterly Summer 2008: Book of Nature, pt. IV and last, Terra Incognita
[CATEGORIES: Literature, Lapham's Quarterly, Reading, Book Review, Photography] [Click HERE to see my previous posts referencing Lapham's Quarterly.] [Some of LQ’s contents are available free. "...to him that knocketh it shall be opened." (Matt. 7:8 -KJV)] [Click on photos to enlarge, zoom, and in many cases see camera info.] My marathon L.Q. pre-view/re-view continues. Complementary … Continue reading Lapham’s Quarterly Summer 2008: Book of Nature, pt. III, Gardens of Earthly Delight
[CATEGORIES: Literature, Lapham's Quarterly, Reading, Book Review] [Click HERE to see my previous posts reviewing or referencing Lapham's Quarterly.] My reading of this issue continues. As noted in partial review one About Money is becoming one of my favorite issues of Lapham's Quarterly. "Money, to be sure, of itself is of no use, for its only use is … Continue reading Lapham’s Quarterly Spring 2008: About Money, partial review two and last
[CATEGORIES: Literature, Lapham's Quarterly, Reading, Book Review] [Click HERE to see my previous posts reviewing or referencing Lapham's Quarterly.] Money. Isn't that what it's all about? The currency of modern day survival? I would be hard-pressed post-apocalypse to snare, skin, cook, and eat a rabbit but I have money to buy bread. Of course post-apoc the money … Continue reading Lapham’s Quarterly Spring 2008: About Money, partial review one
[CATEGORIES: Literature, Lapham's Quarterly, Reading, Book Review] [Click HERE to see my previous posts reviewing or referencing Lapham's Quarterly.] (Yes, that is Abraham Lincoln but no, that is not a death mask. According to sources here and here that is a life mask.) DEATH! DEATH BECOMES US! DEATH TO THE INFIDELS! (That's just about everyone isn't it?) … Continue reading Lapham’s Quarterly Fall 2013: Death
[CATEGORIES: Literature, Lapham's Quarterly, Reading, Book Review] Oh. This IS nasty business. If you thought INTOXICATION (Winter 2013 issue) was an unpleasant topic "you ain't seen nothin' yet". Winter 2008: States Of War is Lewis Lapham's first issue and he pulls no punches. No tiptoeing into the public arena for this literary journal. Wasn't I … Continue reading Lapham’s Quarterly Winter 2008: States of War (Final review)
The cover figure is a kylix (drinking cup). FINISHED! Reading, that is. In record time for me. One month of reading and only a half month into the Jan-Mar winter quarter. I usually spend the entire quarter intermittently reading this excellent literary compendium. Now I will have time to investigate the noteworthy Fall 2011 issue The … Continue reading Lapham’s Quarterly Winter 2013: Intoxication
What can one say about this issue? FINISHED!! Timely as ever it arrived mid-September for the Oct.-Dec. quarter and in time to get some of it read before the Great Elections of 2012. It still took me the entire quarter to read the mere 222 pages of this fine publication. There is something about Politics … Continue reading Lapham’s Quarterly Fall 2012: Politics
I was surprised, as reading two full issues since I subscribed to Lapham's Quarterly last winter I had found it to be a pleasant relief that it was apolitical. Someday the quarterly theme could be politics. At least then we'll know what we're in for. The friend who introduced me to this fine publication, which I … Continue reading Lapham’s Quarterly Summer 2012: Magic Shows, or, Lewis Lapham gets political.
Does time have you? Do you care? A friend and his references to the Fall 2011 issue of Lapham's Quarterly THE FUTURE, as well as a night in the hospital recently, got me thinking about my mortality. As I've grown older, retired, and plotted my potential income and expense for the rest of my potential … Continue reading Do you have time…? (Lapham’s Quarterly Fall 2011: The Future)
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