Sunday's Notes

Jackie Wullschlager,"A bit of a Renaissance," FT, 15 May, reviews Jonathan Jones's The Lost Battles: Leonardo, Michelangelo and the Artistic Duel that Defined the Renaissance, Blake de Maria's Becoming Venetian: Immigrants and the Arts in Early Modern Venice, and Carmen C Bambach, ed., The Drawings of Bronzino.

Mark Auslander,"The Other Side of Paradise: Glimpsing Slavery in the University's Utopian Landscapes," Southern Spaces, 13 May, looks at slavery and a university's early history.

Michael Korda,"The 3 Royal Cousins of World War One," Daily Beast, 15 May, reviews Miranda Carter's George, Nicholas and Wilhelm: Three Royal Cousins and the Road to World War I.

Geoffrey Wheatcroft reviews Norman Stone's The Atlantic and Its Enemies: A Personal History of the Cold War for the Guardian, 16 May.

Bryan Burrough,"Death of a Dream," NYT, 16 May, and David Garrow for the Washington Post, 16 May, review Hampton Sides's Hellbound on His Trail: The Stalking of Martin Luther King Jr. and the International Hunt for His Assassin.

Alan Wolfe,"The Education of Diane Ravitch," NYT, 16 May, reviews Diane Ravitch's The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education.

Anthony Julius,"The Pretender," NYT, 16 May, reviews Paul Berman's The Flight of the Intellectuals.