The World in Time / Lapham’s Quarterly
Lapham’s Quarterly
Donovan Hohn, the acting editor of Lapham's Quarterly, interviews historians, writers, and journalists about books that bring voices from the past up to the microphone of the present. New episodes are released weekly.
Top mentioned books
Here are the most frequently recommended books on The World in Time / Lapham’s Quarterly podcast:
#1 Mentioned in 7 episodes
Moby Dick
Herman Melville
#2 Mentioned in 2 episodes
What Nails It?
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Grail Marcus
#3 Mentioned in 2 episodes
Glad to the Brink of Fear
James Marcus
#4 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The Odyssey
Homer
#5 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Cautionary Tales
Piers Anthony
#6 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The Cause: The American Revolution and Its Discontents, 1773–1783
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Joseph J. Ellis
#7 Mentioned in 1 episodes
A Man for All Seasons
Robert BOLT
#8 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Speak, Memory
Vladimir Nabokov
#9 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Being a Human
Adventures in Forty Thousand Years of Consciousness
Charles Foster
#10 Mentioned in 1 episodes
2666
Roberto Bolaño
#11 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Albert and the Whale
Philip Hoare
#12 Mentioned in 1 episodes
What to Read and Why
Francine Prose
#13 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Confidence Man
The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America
Maggie Haberman
#14 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Thinking in Dark Times, Hannah Arendt on Ethics and Politics
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Roger Berkowitz
#15 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Violence
Slavoj Žižek
#16 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Nature
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#17 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Amazonia, Five Years at the Epicenter of the Dot-Com Juggernaut
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James Marcus
#18 Mentioned in 1 episodes
American Midnight
The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy's Forgotten Crisis
Adam Hochschild
#19 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The Silent Woman
Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes
Janet Malcolm
#20 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The seafarer
Conor McPherson
