Additionally Noted Things

History Carnival LXXXVIII goes up at Warren Stewart's Magnificat on Tuesday 1 June. Send your nominations of the best in May's history blogging to: contact*at*magnificatbaroque*dot*com or use the form.

Sean B. Carroll,"Tracking the Ancestry of Corn Back 9,000 Years," NYT, 24 May, reports on research that finds corn's origin in teosinte, a Mexican grass.

Adam Kirsch,"Albion's Shame," Tablet, 25 May, reviews Anthony Julius's Trials of the Diaspora: A History of Anti-Semitism in England. Harold Bloom's review,"The Jewish Question: British Anti-Semitism," NYT, 29 April, prompted an unusually large critical reaction, found here and here.

Miranda Seymour reviews Daisy Hays's Young Romantics: the Shelleys, Byron and Other Tangled Lives for the Telegraph, 8 May. Hat tip.

Historians' Lives:

Eric Hobsbawm,"Diary," LRB, May, discusses a side of his life you may not know: his work as a jazz reporter;

Jeffrey Herf,"The Wise Man," The Book, 24 May, reviews Walter Laqueur's Best of Times, Worst of Times: Memoirs of a Political Education; and

Chris Lehmann,"Pilgrim's Progress," bookforum, June/August, reviews Eric Miller's Hope in a Scattering Time: A Life of Christopher Lasch.