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Map Bloggery: Check out Cartography, The Map Room, and MapHist. Thanks to Dale Light of Light Seeking Light for the tip.

Walter Benjamin: David Kaufman, "Thinking Past the Nazis," Jewish Daily Forward, 4 August, reviews Walter Benjamin's Berlin Childhood Around 1900. Thanks to Arts & Letters Daily for the tip, though its link "sucks" and mine doesn't.

More Scialabba: After you read Scott McLemee's "Divided Mind," Inside Higher Ed, 9 August, Rick Perlstein recommends that you read George Scialabba's "Message from Room 101," AGNI, #57. It's his "masterpiece," says Perlstein.

Holy City: Slavoj Zizek, "Let Jerusalem Go" LRB, 17 August, makes a reasonable proposal to partisans enthralled with their own conflict.

Senior Moments: A Washington Post poll reports that 30% of Americans cannot tell you the year in which 9/11 occurred and this bloke calls it "A Confederacy of Dunces." Actually, that's one of my favorite novels and the 30% is largely made up of older people. We have trouble dating recent memory and recalling proper nouns. I much more easily recall the year in which my father died (1959) than the year of my mother's death (1998, I think). It makes me more forgiving of students who can't place the Civil War in the right century and know that, if you are fortunate to live so long, this too will happen to you.

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