Midweek Notes

Adam Kirsch,"On the Move," Tablet, 11 May, reviews David B. Ruderman's Early Modern Jewry: A New Cultural History.

David A. Bell,"Was Tolstoy Right?" The Book, 12 May, reviews Dominic Lieven's Russia Against Napoleon: The True Story of the Campaigns of War and Peace.

Dwight Garner,"Floating a Wild Plan and a Dead Man to Defeat the Nazis," NYT, 11 May, reviews Ben Macintyre's Operation Mincemeat: How a Dead Man and a Bizarre Plan Fooled the Nazis and Assured an Allied Victory.

Jed Perl,"THE PICTURE: Picasso [hearts] New York City," TNR, 12 May, reviews"Picasso in the Metropolitan Museum of Art," an exhibit in Manhattan.

Henry Farrell,"Reading Milton Friedman in Dublin," Washington Monthly, May/June, reviews Fintan O'Toole's Ship of Fools: How Stupidity and Corruption Sank the Celtic Tiger.

Nathaniel Rich,"Mythologist of Our Age," Slate, 10 May, reviews The Stories of Ray Bradbury, with an introduction by Christopher Buckley.