Weak Endnotes
Holland Cotter,"A Line Both Spirited and Firm," NYT, 21 January, reviews"The Drawings of Bronzino," an exhibit at Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Given the State Department's reversal of its ban on Tariq Ramadan's travel to and in the United States, Paul Berman re-affirms his claim that Ramadan makes no significant contribution to debate. Berman first argued that at length in"Who's Afraid of Tariq Ramadan?" TNR, 4 June 2007. Both it and his current book project attack Ramadan and his intellectual supporters, Ian Buruma and Timothy Garton Ash.
Charles Simic,"Witness to Horror," NYRB, 11 February, reviews Mark Danner's Stripping Bare the Body: Politics Violence War. Danner's"To Heal Haiti, Look to History, Not Nature," NYT, 21 January, turns his attention to the Caribbean republic.