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Fall 2018 cover of Humanities, Rita Charon
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–Vincent Richarel

Fall 2018
Volume 39, Issue 4

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HUMANITIES: The Magazine of the National Endowment for the Humanities

In This Issue

Rita Charon
Doctor of Narrative Medicine

An interview with Rita Charon, 2018 Jefferson Lecturer in the Humanities

Jon Parrish Peede
No. 10, 1958 (oil on canvas) by Mark Rothko
Attending Physician: Rita Charon

An appreciation 

Craig Irvine
Clown portrait, circa 1902
The American Circus in All Its Glory

A new documentary tells the history of the big top

Joseph Bottum and Justin L. Blessinger

Also in this issue

Napoleon Went Into Exile Aboard a Ship Called the Undaunted

What could go wrong?

Mark Braude
If Printed Dictionaries Are History, What Will Children Sit on to Reach the Table?

An inquiry.

Michael Adams
William Hazlitt Was the Consummate Critic: Observant, Difficult, and Fascinating

No wonder he has such distinguished admirers

Danny Heitman
A Scrimshaw Cribbage Board Offers a Glimpse of the Mariner’s Life
Amy Lifson
Ohio's Pat Williamsen
Peter Tonguette
Kentucky Looks to Robert Penn Warren for Lessons in Politics

All the King’s Men in the twenty-first century

Julia Wicks
The Fake News of Orson Welles

The War of the Worlds at 80

Peter Tonguette
Ivan Turgenev Was Distrusted by the Left and the Right 

Revisiting the Russian writer on his 200th birthday

Micah Mattix
Editor's Note 
David Skinner
Sixty Years Ago, Teenagers in Wichita Started a Movement
Steve Hill

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