More Noted Things

The Leviathan's Shoulders, the history of science carnival, is up at Deep-Sea News.

Adam Gopnik,"What Did Jesus Do?" New Yorker, 24 May, reviews Bart Ehrman's Jesus Interrupted and Diarmaid MacCulloch's Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years.

Janet Maslin,"Looking at a Novelist's Career While Keeping a Close Eye on His Sexuality," NYT, 17 May, reviews Wendy Moffat's A Great Unrecorded History: A New Life of E. M. Forster.

Jonathan Yardley reviews Jonathan Eig's Get Capone: The Secret Plot that Captured America's Most Wanted Gangster for the Washington Post, 16 May.

Giles Whittell,"Solving the mystery of Barack Obama," Times Online, 15 May, reviews David Remnick's The Bridge: The Life and Rise of Barack Obama. Matthew Dallek reviews Jonathan Alter's The Promise: President Obama, Year One for the Washington Post, 16 May.

Finally, visits to Cliopatria surpassed 1,000,000 yesterday. The total would be larger than that since the site meter joined us months after the blog was launched in December 2003. In any case, thanks to all of our former colleagues, our current colleagues, and our readers across the world.