Feb 4, 2010

Thursday's Notes

by Cliopatria

Peter Leeson,"Justice, Medieval Style,"Boston Globe, 31 January. Julie Hofmann:"Anybody want to count the ways in which this is just wrong?" Where are Got Medieval and In the Middle when you need them?

Michael Dirda reviews Michael Scott's Boyle: Between God and Science for the Washington Post, 4 February.

Mark Mazower,"History's Isle," The Book, 3 February, reviews Richard J. Evans's Cosmopolitan Islanders: British Historians and the European Continent.

Liam Julian,"Art as Manifesto," Policy Review, February/March, reviews Nicholas Fox Weber's The Bauhaus Group: Six Masters of Modernism.

The coincidental deaths of J. D. Salinger and Howard Zinn continues to attract commentary. See:

Scott Eric Kaufman,"On the significance of J.D. Salinger and Howard Zinn," Acephalous, 28 January

Dave Eggers,"Remembering Salinger," New Yorker, 29 January

HiLoBrow,"Holden's History of the United States ," HiLoBrow, 29 January

Jill Lepore,"Zinn's History," New Yorker, 3 February

More Comments:

Ralph E. Luker - 2/4/2010

I'm looking forward to seeing what you have to say, Jonathan!

Jonathan Jarrett - 2/4/2010

Peter Leeson, "Justice, Medieval Style,"Boston Globe, 31 January. Julie Hofmann: "Anybody want to count the ways in which this is just wrong?" Where are Got Medieval and In the Middle when you need them?

Or indeed your resident medievalist? Sorry. I'd already started complaining about this, I'll do a proper response here in the next few days because actually ordeal is really interesting.