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Contents
Living Off the Landscape
How Thomas Cole and Frederic Church made themselves at home in the Hudson River Valley.
By Tom Christopher
Proud Flesh: A Recollection of
Wallace Stegner.
By Kenneth Fields
Ain’t That the Truth
Webster’s Third: The most controversial dictionary in the English language.
By David Skinner
Swimming Through Libraries
What Herman Melville read, and how he read, inspired his masterpiece.
By James Williford
Reading Into the Great Depression
Critic Morris Dickstein talks about the culture of the thirties and the demise of theory.
What IF?
The book gives way to the download, and solitary reading transforms into virtual conversations.
By Steve Moyer
Around the Nation
Iowa marks fifty years since Khrushchev’s visit and New Mexico reflects on the Ghost Ranch. More from these and other states.
By Laura Wolff Scanlan
In Focus
Maryland’s Phoebe Stein Davis is determined to make the humanities relevant.
By Donna M. Lucey
Good stable manners; Wild time in the Poconos; Baskerville Hounded.
Who Said It?
Somewhere Beyond the Sea.
Impertinent Questions
with political theorist Alan Houston on the cosmopolitan Benjamin Franklin.
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