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The Politics of Food

How America kept Russia from starving.

By Ronald Radosh

humanities, March/April, 2011, Volume 32, Issue 2

Mo Yan 101

Sometime in the late 1960s or early seventies, a neighbor told Guan Moye about a writer he knew whose work was so popular that he could afford to eat jiaozi—“those tasty little pork dumplings

By James Williford

humanities, January/February, 2011, Volume 32, Issue 1
Young Union soldier with bayoneted musket, knife, and revolver.

"Daybreak Gray and Dim"

How the Civil War changed Walt Whitman's poetry.

By Randall Fuller

humanities, January/February, 2011, Volume 32, Issue 1
The Oval by G. Noble Wagner

A Sculptured Landscape

Fifty-five outdoor sculptures define a modern sensibility at tiny Ursinus College.

By Steve Moyer

humanities, January/February, 2011, Volume 32, Issue 1
Building the Panama Canal

Digging Across Panama

The Americans triumphed over yellow fever, landslides, and worker strikes to change the earth's landscape.

By Edward Tenner

humanities, January/February, 2011, Volume 32, Issue 1
Chicago’s 1933 Century of Progress Exposition

Enchanting Reality

World's fairs during the Depression.

By Benjamin Forgey

humanities, January/February, 2011, Volume 32, Issue 1
The Desire and the Satisfaction, 1893, by Jan Theodore Toorop

The Confessional Culture

In search of healing, we've said goodbye to privacy.

By Christine Rosen

humanities, January/February, 2011, Volume 32, Issue 1
photo of metal maze, inscribed with philosopher names and branches of philosophy

A Homepage for Philosophy

A free online encyclopedia written and edited by experts.

By Liam Julian

humanities, January/February, 2011, Volume 32, Issue 1
Sir Isaac Newton, by Samuel Freeman, (1773–1857)

Newton, The Last Magician

The great man of science had more than a passing interest in alchemy.

By Sam Kean

humanities, January/February, 2011, Volume 32, Issue 1
Pablo Picasso’s Les Demoiselles d’Avignon, 1907

Why Paris?

Two neighborhoods—Montmartre and Montparnasse—helped shape Picasso and a generation of innovators.

By James Panero

humanities, November/December, 2010, Volume 31, Issue 6