Things Noted Here & There

Anthony Grafton,"Google Books and the Judge," New Yorker, 18 September, is Grafton's most recent take on Google Books.

Chicago Boyz is in the midst of a roundtable on Xenophon. See: Introduction, Xenophon was a Professional, Alexander and Cyrus: Two Different Routes to Babylon, Xenophon's Ascent, The Shadow of Herodotus, Tips for Reading The Anabasis, Clearchus Delinda Est, and The Art of Leadership.

Eric Ormsby,"Fateful Schism," WSJ, 11 September, reviews Lesley Hazleton's After the Prophet: The Epic Story of the Shia-Sunni Split in Islam.

Adam Gopnik,"Trial of the Century," New Yorker, 28 September, reviews Louis Begley's Why the Dreyfus Affair Matters and George R. Whyte's The Dreyfus Affair: A Chronological History.

Adam Liptak,"How Brandeis, Revered or Hated, Became a Giant of the Supreme Court," NYT 20 September, reviews Melvin I. Urofsky's Louis D. Brandeis: A Life.

Sara Corbett,"The Holy Grail of the Unconscious," NYTM, 16 September, tells the story of Carl Jung's Liber Novus, which will be published for the first time this fall.

Gregg Herken,"Mutually Assured Friendship," Washington Monthly, September/October, reviews Nicholas Thompson's The Hawk and the Dove: Paul Nitze, George Kennan, and the History of the Cold War.