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                      Humanities:                                                                        The Magazine of the                                                        National Endowment for the Humanities
  Cover of May/June 2008 Humanities --    
				       John Updike 
					   2008 Jefferson Lecturer
Contents
The Artist as Showman
Jefferson Lecturer John Updike talks with NEH Chairman Bruce Cole about his writing, the “gorgeous creatures” of modernism, and much else.

A Fan’s Notes
On Updike’s long game.
By Adam Gopnik

The Word Museum
Wander through the labyrinth of two brothers’ eclectic collections.
By Harry Siegel

Liebling’s War
A. J. Liebling’s World War II journalism climbed to great literary heights, even as it stayed close to the ground.
By Francis-Noël Thomas
Around The Nation
Gangs of Baltimore
Election season in a city controlled by nativist hoodlums.
By Martin Ford
In Focus
Jane Brailove Rutkoff brings programs to all corners of New Jersey.
By Mary Jo Patterson
Departments
Curio: Take my husband please; Song of the critic; Wallflower.

Impertinent Questions
with Margaret Hogan.

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