Early Modern Notes

David M. Kennedy,"What Is History Good For?" NYT, 16 July, reviews Margaret MacMillan's Dangerous Games: The Uses and Abuses of History.

Carnivalesque LII, an early modern edition of the festival, is up at Gilbert Mabbott.

Michael Sims,"White Man's Fantasy," Washington Post, 19 July, reviews Richard Bernstein's The East, the West, and Sex: A History of Erotic Encounters.

Jonathan Yardley,"Shakespeare's Storm," Washington Post, 19 July, reviews Hobson Woodward's A Brave Vessel: The True Tale of the Castaways Who Rescued Jamestown and Inspired Shakespeare's The Tempest.

Robert J. Bliwise,"A Witch's Brew," Duke Magazine, July/August, previews Thomas Robisheaux's The Last Witch of Langenburg: Murder in a German Village.

Justin Moyer,"A New Newton," Washington Post, 19 July, reviews Thomas Levenson's Newton and the Counterfeiter: The Unknown Detective Career of the World's Greatest Scientist.

Christopher Benfey,"Science and the Sublime," NYT, 16 July, reviews Richard Holmes's The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science.