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Lapham’s Quarterly

Posted inHistory, Nonfiction, Quotes

Your Own Personal Jesus-Lite

by michelleweber November 15, 2017October 19, 2022

Elizabeth Harper traveled to Bonito, Italy to visit Zio Vincenzo. Long-lost relative? No, miracle-working mummified corpse of a nameless Neapolitan.

Posted inEditor's Pick

Reach Out and Touch Faith

by michelleweber November 13, 2017October 19, 2022

On venerating Uncle Vincent and the saints who can never be saints.

Posted inArts & Culture, Books, Writing

The 1923 Novel That Helps Us Understand Today’s Racial Climate

by Danielle Jackson July 17, 2017October 19, 2022

‘Cane’ is a series of vignettes about life in rural Georgia told from the point of view of an ambivalently black teacher from the north.

Posted inNonfiction, Quotes

Philippe Petit Reflects on a Lifetime of Fear

by mlegro June 15, 2017October 19, 2022

For the high-wire artist, living in fear is the definition of death.

pro-refugee street art in berlin, germany
Posted inCurrent Events, History, Nonfiction, Quotes

‘Wir Schaffen Das’: Angela Merkel, the Refugee Crisis, and the Complexity Behind a Simple Statement Like ‘We Will Do It’

by michelleweber March 7, 2017October 19, 2022

In Lapham’s Quarterly, Renata Adler returns to her familial homeland to explore Germany’s present-day reaction to the millions of people now trying to get in rather than out.

Posted inEditor's Pick

Brontosaurs Whistling in the Dark

by michelleweber March 6, 2017October 19, 2022

Reflections on Angela Merkel’s and Germany’s attitude toward refugees, from a daughter of refugees who themselves fled Germany in the 1930.

Posted inFeatured, Nonfiction, Reading List

The Lives of Nuns, Part 2: A Reading List

by Emily Perper January 11, 2017October 19, 2022

In the two years since I compiled the first installation of “The Lives of Nuns,” Autostraddle wrote about queer nuns in history, Racked shadowed (fake) nuns growing marijuana, and The Huffington Post reported on a nun’s murder and the students who want the truth. Those stories and more are included below. Seclude yourself and read.

Posted inFeatured, Nonfiction, Quotes

Temptation, Purity, and High-Stakes Evangelism in a Texas Town

by michelleweber November 18, 2015October 19, 2022

Jeff Sharlet spends a day with the sexually pure teens of Battlecry Honor Academy, and learns that renouncing your sins doesn’t mean redacting their memories.

Posted inNonfiction, Quotes

Mortal Enemy, Immortal Ally: How Writers Measure Time

by juliawick November 10, 2014October 19, 2022

Time carried back to the future, once again seen and understood as it was in antiquity, not only as mortal enemy but also as immortal ally. The counterrevolution against the autocratic regime of uniform, global time (commercially and politically imperialist) was pressed forward by many of the artists and writers of Einstein’s generation unwilling to […]

Posted inTop 5

The Top 5 Longreads of the Week

by Longreads October 17, 2014October 19, 2022

Below, our favorite stories of the week.

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