This week on the podcast, Donovan Hohn speaks with journalist and essayist Robert Moor, author of IN TREES: AN EXPLORATION, a follow-up and companion to Moor’s bestselling debut, On Trails, published in 2016.
This week on the podcast, Donovan Hohn speaks with essayist and critic Morgan Meis, author of a trilogy of books about the history of art, civilization, war, and much else.
This week on the podcast, Donovan Hohn speaks with journalist Atossa Araxia Abrahamian, author of THE HIDDEN GLOBE: HOW WEALTH HACKS THE WORLD.
This week on the podcast, Donovan Hohn speaks with James Romm, historian and classicist, about his new book, PLATO AND THE TYRANT: THE FALL OF GREECE'S GREATEST DYNASTY AND THE MAKING OF A PHILOSOPHIC MASTERPIECE.
"What has happened to human attention over the last century is exactly what has happened to the prairielands of America: a monoculture." —The Friends of Attention
“The Cold War laboratory research identified something real about humans: that we can focus on a stimulus on a screen. But it is hardly an adequate account of what it is to be a human person,” says D. Graham Burnett in this week’s episode of The World in Time.
“If you have contributed, on behalf of all of us at Lapham’s Quarterly, I thank you for helping us with the labors (Promethean and Pythagorean, Apollonian and Dionysian) of creation.” www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/h...
Read an end-of-the-year letter from acting editor Donovan Hohn. www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/h...
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This week on the podcast, Donovan Hohn speaks with Charles King about his latest book, “Every Valley: The Desperate Lives and Troubled Times That Made Handel’s Messiah.” www.laphamsquarterly.org/content/epis...
Read an excerpt from “Time’s Echo: Music, Memory, and The Second World War.” www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/r...
Jeremy Eichler on Benjamin Britten and the angels of history. www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/r...
This week on the podcast, Donovan Hohn speaks with Jeremy Eichler, author of “Time’s Echo: Music, Memory, and the Second World War.” www.laphamsquarterly.org/content/epis...
Sometime in the late 1580s, Christopher Marlowe came upon a book that jolted him. Entitled “The History of the Damnable Life and Deserved Death of Doctor John Faustus,” it was an English translation, done by someone who signed himself “P.F. Gent.” www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/h...
Read an excerpt from “Dark Renaissance: The Dangerous Times and Fatal Genius of Shakespeare’s Greatest Rival.” @wwnorton.com www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/h...
Stephen Greenblatt on Christopher Marlowe’s Faustian bargains. www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/h...
This week on the podcast, Donovan Hohn speaks with Stephen Greenblatt about “Dark Renaissance: The Dangerous Times and Fatal Genius of Shakespeare’s Greatest Rival.” www.laphamsquarterly.org/content/epis...
In which @alexanderchee.bsky.social and @calebcrain.bsky.social propose that Moby Dick, dedicated to Nathaniel Hawthorne, might be read as “a love letter.” www.laphamsquarterly.org/content/epis...
“‘It’s awful,’ the historian said.
‘All true,’ I said.”
A collage essay from @hernyfreebland.bsky.social, published by @laphamsquarterly.bsky.social.
Aaron Sachs, author of Up from the Depths, speaks with Donovan Hohn about chapter 72 of Moby Dick for @laphamsquarterly.bsky.social’s The World in Time podcast:
I am now the age of Ahab, who, in chapter 132 of Moby Dick, tells Starbuck that he started whaling as “a boy-harpooneer of eighteen” and has spent “forty years on the pitiless sea.” I, too, have reached my implacability-and-fixed-purpose era. www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/a...
Re-reading Moby Dick at Ahab’s age. An essay by @calebcrain.bsky.social. www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/a...
In an extended, 3-part installment of our intermittent series on Moby Dick and the history of the sea, this podcast considers the novel’s love story—the story of Queequeg and Ishmael’s friendship and marriage—as well as the novel’s dedication to Hawthorne. www.laphamsquarterly.org/content/epis...
In which I reminisce with @laphamsquarterly.bsky.social about my long career of queering Melville . . .
I spoke to Donovan Hohn of @laphamsquarterly.bsky.social for their Moby Dick podcast. We talked about Chapter 4, my Queequeg and Ishmael fanfic (Quishmael for my fellow old Tumblr heads) and Melville’s unrequited love for Nathaniel Hawthorne.
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“That’s the trouble with dreams of power. It stimulates anxiety about a catastrophe that has yet to happen. ”
@hernyfreebland.bsky.social in a collage essay which was published by @laphamsquarterly.bsky.social.
“One of the poignancies of Darrow’s life is that it was hard for him to feel better. He wanted people to feel better. There was so much cruelty in the world. I wonder if, in his heart of hearts, Bryan also couldn’t stand that meaninglessness.” www.laphamsquarterly.org/content/epis...
