Mar 7, 2010

A Carnival & Modern History Notes

by Cliopatria

Biblical Studies Carnival LI is up at Annuma.

Amos N. Jones reviews Lea VanderVelde's Mrs. Dred Scott: The woman behind the scenes of the famous case for Books & Culture, March.

Joseph O'Neill,"Turks, Kurds, Armenians: View From a Small Town," NYT, 3 March, reviews Christopher de Bellaigue's Rebel Land: Unraveling the Riddle of History in a Turkish Town.

Mick Sussman,"The Bootleg Diaries," NYT, 5 March, reviews Max Watman's Chasing the White Dog: An Amateur Outlaw's Adventures in Moonshine.

Martin Cohen reviews Emmanuel Faye's Heidegger: The Introduction of Nazism into Philosophy for the THE, 18 February.

Elaine Showalter,"China Girl," Literary Review, March, reviews Hilary Spurling's Burying Bones: Pearl Buck's Life in China.

Diego Gambetta,"Heroic Impatience," Nation, 4 March, argues that a view of history as unrelenting catastrophe shaped the Baader-Meinhof Gang's actions.

Peter Carlson reviews Francis Wheen's Strange Days Indeed: The 1970s: The Golden Age of Paranoia for the Washington Post, 7 March.