Lapham’s Quarterly Summer 2010: Sports & Games, Pt. I of III

[CATEGORIES: Literature, Lapham's Quarterly, Reading, Book Review, Sports] [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 are all from L.Q. Summer  2010: Sports & Games.] A review. Consider if you will (thank you Rod Serling.)  It is Summer of the year …

Lapham’s Quarterly Summer 2015: Philanthropy

[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. Summer 2015] What a great issue.  This is exactly what Lapham's Quarterly is all about.  It is food and feast for thought.  I'm confident that Man (and Woman) …

Lapham’s Quarterly Spring 2015: Swindle & Fraud

[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 …

Lapham’s Quarterly Summer 2009: Travel

[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 …

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 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.] 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 …

Lapham’s Quarterly Winter 2014: Comedy

[CATEGORIES: Literature, Lapham's Quarterly, Reading, Book Review] [Click HERE to see my previous posts reviewing or referencing Lapham's Quarterly.] Comedy after Death?  (L.Q. Fall 2013: Death.)  I could die laughing. "Comedy's tough!" - Jay Leno, late twentieth-, early twenty-first-century American late-night television host and comedian, for those of you reading this is around 2214.  (Consult your mind …

Lapham’s Quarterly Fall 2012: Politics

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 …