Thursday's Notes

Adam Kirsch,"Heavenly Bodies," Tablet, 21 October, reviews Benjamin D. Sommer's The Bodies of God and the World of Ancient Israel.

Natasha Tripney reviews Sheila Rowbotham's Edward Carpenter: A Life of Liberty and Love for the Guardian, 18 October.

Sherrilyn A. Ifill,"Woman of Valor," Women's Review of Books, September/October, reviews Mia Bay's To Tell the Truth Freely: The Life of Ida B. Wells and Paula Giddings's Ida: A Sword Among Lions: Ida B. Wells and the Campaign against Lynching.

Donald Rayfield,"Trotsky at Last," TLS, 21 October, reviews Bertrand M. Patenaude's Stalin's Nemesis: The exile and murder of Leon Trotsky and Robert Service's Trotsky: A Biography.

Janet Maslin,"Twin Biographies of a Singular Woman, Ayn Rand," NYT, 21 October, reviews Anne C. Heller's Ayn Rand and the World She Made and Jennifer Burns's Goddess of the Market: Ayn Rand and the American Right.