HeyJaredLapham's Quarterly
Lapham’s Quarterly embodies the belief that history is the root of all education. Each issue addresses a topic of current interest and concern by bringing voices from the past up to the microphone of the present.
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- 21
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- Sep 30, 2026
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Extracts: On Technology (opens the original)
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“A principal fruit of friendship is the ease and discharge of the fullness and swellings of the heart which passions of all kinds do cause and induce,” wrote Francis Bacon in 1625. “We know diseases of stoppings and suffocations are the most dangerous in the body; and it is not much otherwise in the mind; you may take sarsaparilla to open the liver, steel to open the spleen, flower of sulfur for the lungs, castoreum for the brain; but no receipt opens the heart but a true friend, to whom you may
A Broken World: Annie Dillard and Lewis H. Lapham (opens the original)
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Voices: Annie Dillard, In Memoriam (opens the original)
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In 2010, on her author’s website, Annie Dillard left the following autobiographical correction: “Almost everything on Wikipedia about me is wrong. I’m not a real painter. Nor am I an ‘eco-’ anything, nor have I ever been. I have no religion, or many religions. The teacher in me says, ‘The way to learn about a writer is to read the text. Or texts.’” Good advice. Following it, we have compiled below passages from some of the texts that Dillard published in Lapham’s Quarterly over the years. Should
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“Those who have the honor to present you with these memoirs are a class of men whom up to the present you have failed to recognize as like yourselves, and whom you have covered in opprobrium by heaping upon them the ignominy attached to their unfortunate lot,” begins a letter to colonial leaders of Saint-Domingue, signed by Georges Biassou, Jean-François, and Toussaint Louverture. “These are men who don’t know how to choose big words but who are going to show you and all the world the justice of
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