May/June 2008
In This Issue May/June 2008
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.
Volume 29, Issue 3
John Updike, the 37th Annual Jefferson Lecturer
Joe Ciardiello
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Features
Liebling's War
A. J. Liebling’s World War II journalism climbed to great literary heights, even as it stayed close to the ground.
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Departments
One-Off
Take My Husband, Please
Wife finds her husband practices both medicine and burglary.Song of the Critic
From The Willa Cather Archive, University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
Impertinent Questions
Impertinent Questions with Margaret A. Hogan
Margaret A. Hogan discusses the letters and lives of John and Abigail Adams.
Executive Function
New Jersey’s Jane Brailove Rutkoff
Jane Brailove Rutkoff brings programs to all corners of New Jersey.
By Mary Jo Patterson