Lewis Lapham has compiled an Occupy Wall Street reading list that lends  some historical perspective to the #OWS movement. As Lapham has reminded us in the past, via Goethe, “He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living hand to mouth.” Here’s his list:

American Colossus—H. W. Brands
The Barbaric Heart—Curtis White
The Relentless Revolution—Joyce Appleby
Theory of the Leisure Class—Thorstein Veblen
Folklore of Capitalism—Thurman Arnold
The Big Short—Michael Lewis
Merchant of Venice—William Shakespeare
Rameau’s Nephew—Denis Diderot
Age of Greed—Jeff Maddrick
The Politicos—Matthew Joseph
Are We Rome?—Cullen Murphy
Letter to Commodore Vanderbilt, Letter to the Children Who Sit in Darkness—Mark Twain
Money and Class in America—Lewis H. Lapham

Welcome to “the future.” Last night at powerHouse arena in Brooklyn, Tumblr and The New Inquiry joined forces for a communal reading to celebrate the new “Future” issue of Lapham’s Quarterly. Structured like one of The New Inquiry’s famous salons, audience members selected samples of writing based on the evening’s theme, and read them out loud. Here are some photos from Mark Iantosca.

Audience member reads a selected sample

Rachel Rosenfelt, founder of The New Inquiry and agent at The Lavin Agency

The audience at powerHouse Arena in Brooklyn

Lewis Lapham, editor of Lapham’s Quarterly

For more photos from the event, click here.