Thursday's Notes

The Giant's Shoulders #18, the history of science carnival, is up at Jost A Mon.

Jamie James reviews Christopher Betts's translation of Charles Perrault's The Complete Fairy Tales (first published in French in 1697) for the LA Times, 13 December.

Louis Menand,"Road Warrior," New Yorker, 21 December, reviews Michael Scammell's Koestler: The Literary and Political Odyssey of a Twentieth-Century Skeptic. I heard Koestler lecture at Duke in the early 1960s. He was there to visit J. B. Rhine's laboratory in extra-sensory perception and denounced his audience for knowing nothing about it. He seemed to have no interest in the civil rights movement, about which some of us could have told him a great deal.

Jackson Lears,"Hard Times Revisited," TAP, 10 December, reviews Morris Dickstein's Dancing in the Dark: A Cultural History of the Great Depression and Linda Gordon's Dorothea Lange: A Life Beyond Limits.