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"Walt Whitman's Gift," a recent essay published by Lapham's Quarterly, explores the importance of a painting titled "The Tea Party" owned by the Kislak Center. One of three paintings by the London-born artist Herbert Gilchrist held here, "'The Tea Party' dwells in a nebulous state of suspended conversation. No one looks at each other . . . In a posture of still meditation, Walt Whitman smells a red flower." Professor Don James McLaughlin argues that, "among Gilchrist's and Whitman's friends at the time of the painting’s creation, 1882–84, the import of the scene would have been inseparable from the story of Herbert’s notably absent older sister, the widely connected and beloved physician Dr. Beatrice Gilchrist." Created in the years following Beatrice's sudden death, "The Tea Party" echoes a feeling the doctor's mother distilled in her epitaph: "Faithful unto Death. Many hearts mourn her. In her short career did she by skill, tenderness, and unwearied devotion to duty bring healing and comfort to many both here and in America." For more on the life of Beatrice Gilchrist and the significance of "The Tea Party," you can find the essay "Walt Whitman's Gift" at: www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/walt-whitmans-gift

I found an old friend at the airport. I was one of the first subscribers to #laphamsquarterly when they first launched, and I have adored so many of these volumes. After I moved to New Zealand a few years ago, my subscription lapsed...and today, on a day when my mood is low and my will is weak, because my flights from Denver back across the globe are delayed by a day or more, I find this conveniently packaged collation of all the best works of #happiness from across the corpus, delivered in a friendly, artistic, and eloquent periodical that will surely keep me grinning across the oceans. #globetrotting #moodmanagement #planereading @laphamsquart https://www.instagram.com/p/B0rO0ZFhDni/?igshid=11jkq4lh52vn0

That time my work was featured in Latham’s Quarterly and I never told anyone.🤭...I think I found out the day after my son was born, when the issue arrived in the mail, and never got around to sharing the news! • Thank you Lewis Lapham for hand picking my work among others for your preamble to the issue on Fear — and thanks @laphamsquart for continuing to produce absolutely beautiful volumes worthy of collecting!🙌 • My egg tempera painting “Dust on The Scales” is featured in the summer 2017 back issue titled “Fear” - volume 10, number 3 — Thanks again for the honor Lapham’s, I’m very proud of this. #laphamsquarterly #laphams #julioart #julioreyes #dustonthescales #eggtemperapainting #eggtempera

Today I Learned: Texas no longer allows for a traditional 'last meal' for death row inmates. Instead, they get whatever is on the prison menu that day. And it's all because of Lawrence Russell Brewer. In 2011, he ordered what can only be described as a great big F you to the state - two chicken-fried steaks, one pound of barbequed meat, a triple-patty bacon cheeseburger, a meat-lover's pizza, the fajitas, an omelette, a bowl of okra, one pint of Blue Bell ice cream (with crushed peanuts), and three root beers. Then, he ate not one bite. #deathrow #lastmeal #laphamsquarterly #pizzahut @cunninghambrent http://www.laphamsquarterly.org/death/last-meals

#Saturday morning #read and #chill. #JhumpaLahiri's new book is excellent so far. #inOtherWords #Tea #Foreignaffairs #laphamsquarterly #monocle

“Grief occurs widely in other social mammals and in birds, for example after loss of a parent, offspring, or mate,” the British psychologist John Archer wrote in his 1999 study, The Nature of Grief. It occurs in other animals, including human animals, because we all love—that ill-defined emotion and strange force that we only hesitantly ascribe to other species. Yet love may be natural selection’s most compelling force, driving us and our fellow animals to care beyond reason for our families, loved ones, and children. Love, the biologist Bernd Heinrich has written, is the kind of emotion “necessary where rationality alone would not suffice to carry the day.”

Catch editors Kira Don and Timothy Don along with authors Jeff Sharlet and Sandra Gilbert as they discuss death and dying in the latest issue of LQ. 

Anne Hathaway reads Dorothy Parker (by laphamsquarterly)