Things Noted Here & There
Johannah Cornblatt,"The Evolution of Birth Control," Newsweek, 29 October, is a slideshow of its history.
Christopher Benfey's"Renaissance Men," NYT, 29 October, reviews Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall.
Caleb Crain,"Keats Speaks," NYT, 29 October, considers whether John Keats spoke like the character who plays him in Jane Campion's film,"Bright Star." See also: Crain,"Cockney Keats?" Steamboats are ruining everything, 31 October.
Daniel Stashower,"The United States of spooks and spirits," Washington Post, 25 October, reviews William J. Birnes's and Joel Martin's The Haunting of America: From the Salem Witch Trials to Harry Houdini and Mitch Horowitz's Occult America: The Secret History of How Mysticism Shaped Our Nation.
James M. McPherson,"Brutal Terrain," NYT, 29 October, reviews John Keegan's The American Civil War: A Military History.
Tony Horwitz,"Wilderness Warriors," NYT, 29 October, reviews Timothy Egan's The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire That Saved America.
Michael Dirda,"Was the man behind 'Pan' a monster?" Washington Post, 29 October, reviews Piers Dudgeon's Neverland: J.M. Barrie, the Du Mauriers, and the Dark Side of"Peter Pan".
Justin Moyer reviews Michael Bobelian's Children of Armenia: A Forgotten Genocide and the Century-Long Struggle for Justice for the Washington Post, 1 November.
Justin Fox,"In the Long Run," NYT, 30 October, reviews Peter Clarke's Keynes: The Rise, Fall, and Return of the 20th Century's Most Influential Economist and Robert Skidelsky's Keynes: The Return of the Master.
Ron Rosenbaum,"The Evil of Banality," Slate, 30 October, considers new information about Arendt and Heidigger.
Anna Mundow,"Imperialism and the birth of the UN," Boston Globe, 1 November, interviews Mark Mazower, the author of No Enchanted Palace: The End of Empire and the Ideological Origins of the United Nations. Hat tip to Legal History's Mary Dudziak.