More Noted Things

Robert McCrum,"How English erased its roots to become the global tongue of the 21st century," Guardian, 9 May, is an excerpt from his new book, Globish: How the English Language Became the World's Language.

Adam Kirsch,"Heirs to the Throne," The Book, 11 May, and Mark Noll,"The KJV Effect," Books & Culture, May/June, review Robert Alter's Pen of Iron: American Prose and the King James Bible.

James Wood,"Tocqueville in America," New Yorker, 17 May, reviews Leo Damrosch's Tocqueville's Discovery of America and Peter Carey's Parrot and Olivier in America.

Michael McDonald reviews Frederick Brown's For the Soul of France: Culture Wars in the Age of Dreyfus for Commentary, May.

Chris Lehmann,"Dry Rot," bookforum, April/May, reviews Daniel Okrent's Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition.

Robert Douglas-Fairhurst reviews Michael Sherborne's H. G. Wells: Another Kind of Life for the Telegraph, 8 May.