More Noted Things

Judith Shulevitz,"Was Paul a Jew?" Tablet, 11 November, looks at recent revisionist studies of Paul of Tarsus by Pamela Eisenbaum, John G. Gager, Sarah Ruden, and Garry Wills.

Deirdre Foley-Mendelssohn,"Scandal and Success," New Yorker, 13 November, reviews"Candide at 250: Scandal and Success," an exhibit at the New York Public Library.

Steve Fraser,"The Misunderstood Robber Baron: On Cornelius Vanderbilt," The Nation, 11 November, reviews T. J. Stiles's The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt.

Martin Amis,"The problem with Nabokov," The Guardian, 14 November, is an essay occasioned by the publication of Nabokov's The Original of Laura. Hat tip.