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Oct 14, 2009

More Noted Things




Stephen Adams,"Leonardo da Vinci picture 'worth millions' revealed by a fingerprint," Telegraph, 12 October, reports the claimed new find of a da Vinci.

Joan Acocella,"Tudor Tales," New Yorker, 19 October, Martin Rubin,"A Man for All Tasks and Times," WSJ, 10 October, and Wendy Smith,"Henry VIII Got the Wives, but Cromwell Got the Power," Washington Post, [13] October, review Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall.

Geoffrey Kurtz,"From Liberalism to Social Democracy," Dissent, 26 August, reviews Andreas Kalyvas's and Ira Katznelson's Liberal Beginnings: Making a Republic for the Moderns. Hat tip.

Nicholas Bakalar,"In 1918 Pandemic, Another Possible Killer: Aspirin," NYT, 12 October, asks whether the cure accounted for a portion of the deaths.

Joseph Loconte,"‘A New Era of Friendship and Prosperity'," Books & Culture, 12 October, reviews David Faber's Munich, 1938: Appeasement and World War II.

Evan R. Goldstein,"Inventing Israel," Tablet, 13 October, reviews Shlomo Sand's The Invention of the Jewish People. See also: Anita Shapira,"The Jewish-people Deniers," The Journal of Israeli History, March.

Sean Wilentz,"Dylan's Early Christmas Present," Daily Beast, 13 October, reviews Bob Dylan's new album, Christmas in the Heart.



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Ralph E. Luker - 10/14/2009

Right. If you do a Google search on Loconte, you'll see that his affiliations, including Manhattan's King's College, are all on the right. Books & Culture, itself, is fairly conservative. Loconte is probably further to the right than some others who publish there.


Alan Allport - 10/14/2009

Isn't there something inherently odd about an article in a 'Christian Review' of Books and Culture referring to pacifism as "an infection"?