The summer 2017 issue of Lapham’s Quarterly, Fear, is now on newsstands. With original essays by Lewis H. Lapham, Caroline Alexander, J. Hoberman, Suki Kim, Philippe Petit, and Ivan Vladislavić; Voices in Time contributions from Steve Biko, Black Elk, Tadeusz Borowski, Sigmund Freud, Nadine Gordimer, Joseph Heller, Václav Havel, Thomas Hobbes, Arthur Koestler, Emma Reyes, Marilynne Robinson, Dorothy Thompson, and others; and art by Francis Bacon, Werner Herzog, and others. INTRODUCTORY Cover | Shield with the Head of Medusa, Arnold Böcklin, 1897 Program Notes | Among the Contributors Map | Fire Down Below Preamble | Lewis H. Lapham, Petrified Forest VOICES IN TIME Trigger Warnings 2017: United States | Reports of ICE Raids 44 BC: Rome | Cicero c. 100: Nicopolis | Epictetus 1965: Cambridge, MA | Richard Hofstadter c. 1180 BC: Athens | Aeschylus c. 1938: Moscow | Arthur Koestler 1949: Johannesburg | Nadine Gordimer 1640: London | Thomas Hobbes 1907: Turkey | Folktale c. 40: Rome | Suetonius 1900: Chicago | Ida B. Wells 2016: Minneapolis | Shannon Gibney c. 1300: England | Deeds of the Romans 1907: Tokyo | He-Yin Zhen 1872: Downe | Charles Darwin 1939: Barsham Harbor, ME | William Sloane 1757: London | Edmund Burke 1927: Providence | H.P. Lovecraft 1814: Killingworth | Ernst Bloch 1916: Somme | Siegfried Sassoon 1944: Auschwitz | Tadeusz Borowski 1915: Washington, DC | Woodrow Wilson 1688: Tsuruga | Ihara Saikaku 1840: Paris | Alexis de Tocqueville 1974: New York City | Joseph Heller 1921: Igloolik | Aua 1938: New York City | Dorothy Thompson c. 1110: Rennes | Marbod of Rennes 2015: Iowa City | Marilynne Robinson 1971: New York City | Charles Simic Panic Attacks 2004: Cambridge, MA | Patrick J. McGinnis 1913: Vienna | Stefan Zweig c. 1970: United States | Serentil Advertisement 1621: Oxford | Robert Burton 1945: Montluçon | Saul Friedländer c. 355 BC: Athens | Aristotle 1930: Pine Ridge Reservation | John G. Neihardt 279 BC: Thermopylae | Pausanias 1904: Felixstowe | M.R. James 1600: Ogaki Castle | Oan 1975: Buenos Aires | Luisa Valenzuela 1866: St. Petersburg | Fyodor Dostoevsky 1956: Paris | E.M. Cioran c. 1750: Paris | Michel Foucault c. 1915: Bahia | Jorge Amado c. 950: Aleppo | Ibn Khalawayh 1984: London | George Orwell 1917: Vienna | Sigmund Freud 1942: Indianapolis | Paul Tillich 1844: Philadelphia | Edgar Allan Poe 1913: Oyster Bay, NY | Theodore Roosevelt 1897: Atlantic Ocean | Stephen Crane 1996: Santa Clara, CA | Andrew Grove c. 1050: Forres | William Shakespeare 2004: Miami | Edwidge Danticat c. 1300: China | Guo Jujing 1975: Prague | Václav Havel 1816: Berlin | E.T.A. Hoffmann 1915: Cambridge, MA | Child Welfare Manual Terror Alerts 2004: London | Wole Soyinka 1961: Chicago | Jerome D. Frank 692: Mount Sinjar | Pseudo-Methodius 1782: Gnadenhütten, OH | William Dean Howells c. 1977: Addis Ababa | Hama Tuma 1513: San Casciano | Niccolò Machiavelli 1961: Ciudad Trujillo | Mario Vargas Llosa c. 725 BC: Kingdom of Judah | Book of Isaiah 1793: Paris | Maximilien Robespierre 1976: St.-Paul-de-Vence | James Baldwin 1670: Voorburg | Baruch Spinoza 1481: Seville | Andrés Bernáldez 1979: Kabul | Atiq Rahimi c. 1930: Bogotá | Emma Reyes c. 1555: Tenochtitlán | Diego Durán 1971: Durban | Steve Biko c. 1857: North Carolina | Hannah Crafts 1942: Cambridge, MA | Walter Cannon 1995: Chiapas | Subcomandante Marcos 2006: New York City | Atticus Lish 1975: New York City | Susan Brownmiller 1943: Hamburg | Hans Erich Nossack FURTHER REMARKS Essays The Dread Gorgon | Caroline Alexander Fear of Arrival | Ivan Vladislavić Every Pebble Can Blow Us Sky-High | J. Hoberman Land of Darkness | Suki Kim In Search of Fear | Philippe Petit Departments Conversations | Kempe, Locke, the CIA Miscellany | Egg Prophecy, Wolf Trials, Space Permits Glossary | Boggle, Mammet, Scarehead Sources | Readings & Art