Weak Endnotes
Simon Callow reviews Tom Ambrose's Heroes and Exiles: Gay Icons Through the Ages for the Guardian, 3 April.
Jon Meacham,"Thine Is the Kingdom," NYT, 1 April, reviews Diarmaid MacCulloch's Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years.
Tom Vanderbilt,"Machine Dreams," bookforum, April/May, reviews Sigfried Giedion's Mechanization Takes Command: A Contribution to Anonymous History.
Dahlia Lithwick,"Writ and Wrongs," bookforum, April/May, reviews Paul D. Halliday's Habeas Corpus: From England to Empire.
Tyler Cowan,"Painting by Words," bookforum, April/May, reviews Nienke Bakker, Leo Jansen, and Hans Luijten, eds., Vincent van Gogh: The Letters: The Complete Illustrated and Annotated Edition (Vol. 1-6).
Nathaniel Popper,"Conscious Pariah: On Raul Hilberg," Nation, 31 March, profiles the important historian of the Holocaust.