Photo caption In this issue, read about the motivation behind Ulysses S. Grant's penning of his memoir. Sara Tyson Winter 2018 Volume 39, Issue 1 SUBSCRIBE FOR HUMANITIES MAGAZINE PRINT EDITION Browse all issues Sign up for HUMANITIES Magazine newsletter Also in this issue The Voice of Shirley Jackson Was Unnerving and Full of Foreboding In a rare audio recording, the author revealed what her writing sounded like to her Peter Tonguette The Thinker Who Believed in Doing William James and the philosophy of pragmatism Peter Gibbon Over a Career Spanning Six Decades, American Poet W. S. Merwin Transformed Anger into Art Steve Moyer New Museums Confront Mississippi History, Coming to Terms with Tragedies, Celebrating Triumphs Sherry Lucas “New Orleans Has Been a Wicked City for a Long Time” An excerpt from New Orleans & The World: 1718–2018 Anthology Alecia P. Long Students in Tuscaloosa Learn All About the Blues, and How to Sing Them, Too Haley Herfurth A Bhutanese Folktale Becomes a Children’s Book in New Hampshire A pumpkin marries a princess and then . . . Laura Wolff Scanlan Before James Bond, a Hidden Camera Inside a Watch Was a Gadget for Royalty Steve Moyer The Many Alexander Hamiltons An interview with Joanne B. Freeman Humanities Staff Executive Function with Julie Fry Listening to the voices of California’s people Natalie Jabbar Editor’s Note David Skinner
The Voice of Shirley Jackson Was Unnerving and Full of Foreboding In a rare audio recording, the author revealed what her writing sounded like to her Peter Tonguette
Over a Career Spanning Six Decades, American Poet W. S. Merwin Transformed Anger into Art Steve Moyer
New Museums Confront Mississippi History, Coming to Terms with Tragedies, Celebrating Triumphs Sherry Lucas
“New Orleans Has Been a Wicked City for a Long Time” An excerpt from New Orleans & The World: 1718–2018 Anthology Alecia P. Long
A Bhutanese Folktale Becomes a Children’s Book in New Hampshire A pumpkin marries a princess and then . . . Laura Wolff Scanlan
