After watching a performance of his play Peter Pan with his five-year-old godson, J.M. Barrie asked the boy what he had liked best. "What I think I liked best," the boy replied, "was tearing up the program and dropping the bits on people's heads.

About Lapham's Quarterly

Lapham's Quarterly is a literary magazine established in 2007 by former Harper's Magazine editor Lewis H. Lapham. Each issue examines a theme using primary source material from history. The inaugural issue "States of War" contained dozens of essays, speeches, and excerpts from historical authors ranging from Thucydides, William Shakespeare, and...