Things Noted Here & There

Allison Hoffman,"Treasure Trove," Tablet, 9 September, takes another look at Jack Lunzer's Valmadonna, the finest collection of Hebraica ever gathered by a single individual. It's for sale, you know.

Claude R. Marx,"Slavery's influence on the Constitution," Boston Globe, 11 September, reviews David Waldstreicher's Slavery's Constitution: From Revolution to Ratification.

"Creation," the first major film about the life of Charles Darwin, was recently previewed in the NYT and will open the Toronto Film Festival and premier in England on Saturday. Yet, it does not have a distributor in the United States."Too controversial," say its producers.

Tim Page,"A Masterful Composer, a Melodic Life," Washington Post, 13 September, reviews Roland John Wiley's Tchaikovsky.

Roberta Smith,"Serenade in Blue," NYT, 10 September, reviews"Monet's Water Lilies," an exhibit that opens Sunday at Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art.

Jonathan Yardley,"Art for Hard Times," Washington Post, 13 September, and Richard Schickel for the LA Times, 13 September, review Morris Dickstein's Dancing in the Dark: A Cultural History of the Great Depression.

Louisa Gilder,"Quantum Leap," NYT, 8 September, reviews Graham Farmelo's The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Mystic of the Atom.

Chuck Leddy,"A critical look at the GI Bill's impact," Boston Globe, 10 September, reviews Glenn C. Altschuler's and Stuart M. Blumin's The GI Bill: : A New Deal for Veterans.

Patricia Cohen,"Grandpa Had His Own Sphere of Influence," NYT, 11 September, Jacob Heilbrunn,"Which of These Men Won the Cold War?" Washington Post, 13 September, and Mark Atwood Lawrence,"Friends, Not Allies," NYT, 8 September, review Nicholas Thompson's The Hawk and the Dove: Paul Nitze, George Kennan, And the History Of the Cold War.

Leon Wieseltier,"Because They Believe," NYT, 8 September, reviews Norman Podhoretz's Why Are Jews Liberals?

Finally, Katrina Gulliver has compiled a rapidly growing list of Twittering historians.