HUMANITIES Magazine: January/February 2012 Table of Contents

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Unhappy Camper
Kurt Vonnegut and the dyspeptic tradition in American letters.
David Kipen

The Right to Love
The freedom to marry across racial lines was tested by a shy, Virginia couple, who were very much in love.
Donna M. Lucey

“Moving and Memorable”
The complete poems of Philip Larkin.
Francis-Noël Thomas

Dating Fashionable Middle-Aged People
A scholar’s epic journey to catalog two hundred years of medieval dress.
Katy Werlin

Public Parking
Frederick Law Olmsted designed pastoral escapes for the urban masses.
Anna Maria Gillis

Żeromski the Magnificent!
The novelist who captured Polish life even as it was changing.
Steve Moyer

Deaf Meets Wonderstruck
An NEH-funded documentary inspires a cinematic novel, one to be seen as well as read.
Katherine Eastland

Humanities on the Brain
New collaborations between neuroscientists and humanists look to reunite the “two cultures” of the academy.
James Williford

Cover of January/February 2012 Humanities Portrait of Philip Larkin.

— © 2011 Gary Kelly

Curio

Statements

Kentucky jockey Jimmy Winkfield fled to Russia to escape Jim Crow, Montana’s hot springs were pockets of peace and luxury on the frontier, and the story of the only female buffalo soldier is recounted in Mississippi.

In Focus

Alabama’s Bob Stewart builds and rebuilds on the humanities.
By Larry Bleiberg

Impertinent Questions

with Paul D. Halliday on the origins of habeas corpus.
Edited by Meredith Hindley

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