Lapham’s Quarterly Spring 2020: SCANDAL, Pt. 3

[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 Spring 2020: SCANDAL, except where noted.] [Right-click on a photo may give the option to open it separately.] [NEW to Lapham's Quarterly? See …

Lapham’s Quarterly Summer 2019: Happiness (second 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 Fall 2018: Rivalry & Feud

[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 L.Q. Fall 2018: Rivalry & Feud, except where noted otherwise.] [New to Lapham's Quarterly? See the standard notes at the end of this review. After …

Lapham’s Quarterly Spring 2018: Rule of Law, review pt. 1

[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 and images from L.Q. Spring 2018: Rule of Law] [New to Lapham's Quarterly? See the standard notes at the end of this review. After 40+ LQ reviews I jump …

Lapham’s Quarterly Fall 2016: Flesh

[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 and art from L.Q. Fall 2016: Flesh.] In it's nine year, 36 issue history L.Q. has an issue titled EROS (Winter 2009) but not one titled SEX.  How will …

Hamilton has arrived, Pt. II and Last

[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 and art from L.Q. Hamilton] I said this special issue from Lapham's Quarterly about Alexander Hamilton is going to be good and it is, or was.   I read the issue in the space …

Hamilton has arrived, Pt. I

[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 and art from L.Q. Hamilton and Lewis Lapham's Age of Folly] Alexander Hamilton. The Founding Father. Not the current hip-hop play/musical that has Broadway agog and gaga, though said musical is mentioned in …

Lapham’s Quarterly Summer 2016: Luck (Pt. II of several)

[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 and art from L.Q. Summer 2016: Luck.] A review, continued. Voices in Time (the main body of L.Q.) is in three sections: Strokes of Luck Wheels of Fortune Twists of Fate …

Lapham’s Quarterly Summer 2016: Luck (Pt. I of several)

[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 and art from L.Q. Summer 2016: Luck.] A review. As luck would have it I received this issue just a day after guessing I would receive it soon. How …

Lapham’s Quarterly Fall 2008: Ways Of Learning

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:  …

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 …

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 …

Give Me A Break by John Stossel

Oh these libertine Libertarians.  Will they never stop chanting for individual rights and self-responsibility? What does Stossel think this is, a free country? His book Give Me a Break : How I Exposed Hucksters, Cheats, and Scam Artists and Became the Scourge of the Liberal Media... by John Stossel (Feb 1, 2005) seems to speculate that it could be, …