Lapham's Quarterly: The Sea

by Lewis H. Lapham (Editor)

Fine writing and art.

CONTENTS:

Voices in Time
Seascapes

Charles Moore Sails Into a Garbage Patch: 2003 / Long Beach, CA
Herman Melville in a Tormented Sea: c. 1835 / Cape of Good Hope
Monsters of the Deep: c. 1240 / Norway
Infinite Solitude : 1955 / Caribbean Sea
Survival of the Fittest: c. 150 / Mediterranean Sea
Unconscious Desecration: 1921 / New York City
Jules Verne Attends a Funeral: 1868 / Indian Ocean
Jacques Cousteau Explores Uncharted Waters: 1943 / Bandol
The Accursed Trade: 1756 / Atlantic Ocean
Our Seaworthy Captain: 1872 / South Pacific Ocean
Marine Map: 1817 / Society Islands
Between the Devil and the Deep-Blue Sea: c. 1185 BC / Strait of Messina
Committed to Davy Jones’ Locker: 1834 / Pacific Ocean
Richard Hughes Cannot Secure the Hatches: 1929 / Caribbean Sea
Answered Prayer: 687 / Farne Island
Abandon Ship: 1912 / Atlantic Ocean
Going Down With the Ship: 1120 / English Channel
The Curious Sensation of Drowning: 1892 / Strait of Formosa
Man’s Best Friend: 77 / Rome
Rachel Carson Returns to the Sea: 1951 / Woods Hole, MA
Nothing to Walk On: 1926 / France
Calling in the Air Support: 1991 / Atlantic Ocean
Amid Frozen Worlds: 1552 / Frozen Sea
No Such Thing as Being Warm: 1774 / Firth of Forth
Antediluvian: c. 650 BC / India
Italo Calvino Swims Westward: 1983 / Italy

Seafaring

In Pirate Waters: 1999 / Andaman Sea
Vision of Beatitude: 1912 / Connecticut
Taking Stock: 1812 / Atlantic Ocean
A Grand and Awful Scene: 1812 / Atlantic Ocean
Proportional Response: c. 480 BC / Hellespont
Sailor's Song: c. 850 / England
Out of Soundings: 1923 / New York City
Only Ten Dinars and a Carpet: 1341 / Calicut
Hunger, Thirst, Sickness: 1697 / Pacific Ocean
Sea Chantey: 1861 / Oxford
Across the Great Divide: 1987 / Bering Strait
New World: c. 1000 / Greenland
Accurate Forecasting: 1914 / Panama
Pompey Clears the Decks: 67 BC / Mediterranean Sea
Celestial Navigation: c. 1968 / Mediterranean Sea
Dark-Ship Diplomacy: 1853 / Washington, DC
Mistaken Identities: c. 800 / Baghdad
Limit of Discovery: 1775 /Southern Ocean
Boat-Shaped Mind: 1941 / Sea of Cortez
When Beset by Misfortune: 23 BC / Rome
The Wonderful Complaints of Christopher Columbus: 1503 / Jamaica
The Sea is English: 1878 / Edinburgh
Trade Routes: 1776 / London
Epic Brag: 1572 / Lisbon
On the Waterfront: 1862 / London
W.G. Sebald Gazes Into Eternity: 1995 / Suffolk

Seashores

Sonali Deraniyagala Flees Inland: 2004 / Sri Lanka
Beached: c. 300 BC / Tegea
When the Levee Breaks: c. 2500 BC / Sumer
Subtle Sea Musics: c. 1926 / Cape Cod
No Place of Habitation: 1630 / Essex
Life Cycle: 1941 / California
Paradise Lost: 1907 / London
Washed Ashore: 690 / Naka
Charles Dickens on Vacation: 1851 / Broadstairs
Against Nature: c. 1340 / Dead Sea
Beachfront Property: 1975 / Northeastern Seaboard
Ebb and Flow: c. 815 / Chang'an
Liquid Eternity: c. 1856 / Louisiana
Belly of the Beast: c. 750 / Mediterranean Sea
Castaway: 1709 / Juan Fernández
Writing on Water: c. 1979 / Trinidad
Sex on the Beach: c. 150 / Samosata
Light Surf on Level Sand: 1798 / London
Last Swim: c. 1895 / Grand Isle, LA
A Thousand Fearful Wrecks: c. 1477 / London
Inspecting the Manifest: 1931 / Veracruz
Sinking Sun: 1689 / Izumo Point
The Good Life: 1855 / Nantucket, MA
Dead Reckoning: 1914 / Antarctica
Groundswell: 1941 / Cape Ann, MA
Joseph Conrad’s Love of the Sea: c. 1880 / London

Departments
Essays

Open Waters: by Simon Winchester
A Winelike Sea: by Caroline Alexander
Around Alone: by Maggie Shipstead

Conversations

Virgil & Guy de Maupassant: Wind Power
Benjamin Franklin & Charlotte Brontë: Seasick
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel & John Fowles: The Cruelest Mistress

Miscellany

Sink, Sank, Sunk: Findings from the Editors

Genres: Poetry, Fiction

221 pages, Paperback

First published June 1, 2013

About the author

Lewis Henry Lapham was the editor of Harper's Magazine from 1976 until 1981, and again from 1983 until 2006. He is the founder and current editor of Lapham's Quarterly, featuring a wide range of famous authors devoted to a single topic in each issue. Lapham has also written numerous books on politics and current affairs.

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