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Lapham's quarterly, night, [editor, Lewis H. Lapham]

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 220-221) and art, photography, and illustrations index

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Lapham's quarterly

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[editor, Lewis H. Lapham]

Lapham's quarterly, v. 12, no. 1 (Winter 2019)

night

"In our new issue on Night, the Quarterly journeys from dusk to dawn to investigate what happens when the sun goes down. Juvenal recalls the perils of walking in twilight Rome; Charlotte Brontë and F. Scott Fitzgerald each pass through dark nights of the soul; and Jonathan Crary considers how we're losing sleep to the demands from our screens. Lapham's Quarterly embodies the belief that history is the root of all education, scientific and literary as well as political and economic. Each issue addresses a topic of current interest and concern--war, religion, money, medicine, nature, crime--by bringing up to the microphone of the present the advice and counsel of the past. The texts are drawn from authors on the order of Aristotle, William Shakespeare, Leo Tolstoy, Mark Twain, Thucydides, Virginia Woolf, Charles Dickens, Edith Wharton, Edward Gibbon, Mahatma Gandhi, Confucius, Honoré de Balzac, Jane Austen, Jorge Luis Borges, Matsuo Bashō, Henry David Thoreau, and Joan Didion. Abridged rather than paraphrased, none of the text in the Quarterly runs to a length longer than six pages, others no more than six paragraphs. Together with passages from the world's great literature, each issue offers full-color reproductions of paintings and sculpture by the world's great artists. The connecting of the then with the now is further augmented with the testimony found in the letters, speeches, diaries, and photographs, in five-act plays and three-part songs."--Publisher description

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