January/February 2016
In This Issue January/February 2016
George Balanchine and the United States: An Artist in Love with His Adopted Country
George Balanchine adored the United States, especially all those dancers from Texas or wherever
By Peter Tonguette
Volume 37, Issue 1
Ballerinas adorn the window of the School of American Ballet, started by the Russian-turned-American choreographer, George Balanchine.
—Alfred Eisenstaedt, The LIFE Picture Collection / Getty Images
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Features
Did He Even Know He Was Shakespeare?
What the First Folio's history tells us about our greatest playwright
By David Scott Kastan
The Man Who Made American Modernism and Modernism American
James Laughlin, champion of literature
By Greg Barnhisel
January/February 2016 edition on ISSUU
A new way to read the magazine that mimics reading it on paper.
The Humanities Are More Economical
What Teaching Political Philosophy and Efficiency Have to Do with Each Other.
By Danielle Allen
The Grown-Up Saint-Exupéry
The Little Prince is being revived as a feature film. And who was the Frenchman who wrote it?
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Departments
Statements
The Birth of Rock ‘n’ Roll Is Found at Sam Phillips’s Sun Records
Anyone could walk in and record their song at small studio in Memphis.
By Laura Wolff ScanlanTom Bradley’s Los Angeles
Los Angeles elected its first black mayor with a multicultural coalition.
By Catherine WagleyIn the Land of Snow and Fargo, a Legacy of Black Writing Emerges
A new anthology of African-American writing reveals black lives in the Midwest.
By Jael GoldfineOne-Off
Impertinent Questions
Executive Function
Briann Greenfield of the New Jersey Council for the Humanities
She takes a public historian's view of the world.
By Mary Jo PattersonEdNote
