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Ralph E. Luker

Sunday Notes

History Carnival LXI is up at Histori i Media. In a festival first, History Carnival is hosted at a blog that is primarily in Polish. For those of us who are Polish-challenged, the Carnival is posted in English. Enjoy the festivities!

Michael Dirda reviews Charles Nicholl's The Lodger Shakespeare: His Life on Silver Street for the Washington Post, 3 February.

To promote the Landfill Prize for the most useless inventions, John Naish launches the nominations with "Top Ten Useless Inventions," Times OnLine, 28 January. Hat tip.

Henry Petroski, "Telephone Tag," Washington Post, 3 February, reviews Seth Shulman's The Telephone Gambit: Chasing Alexander Graham Bell's Secret.

Philip Lopate, "Coming to America," NYT, 3 February, reviews Joseph Horowitz's Artists in Exile: How Refugees From Twentieth-Century War and Revolution Transformed the American Performing Arts.



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