More Noted Things

History Carnival LXXXVIII is up at Warren Stewart's Magnificat. Scroll down for some of the best in May's history blogging and some of the best in 17th century music.

Bee Wilson,"On the campaign trail," London's Sunday Times, 30 May, reviews Ian Davidson's Voltaire: A Life.

Joseph Kanon reviews Ben Macintyre's Operation Mincemeat: How a Dead Man and a Bizarre Plan Fooled the Nazis and Assured an Allied Victory for the Washington Post, 30 May.

Benjamin Balint,"Imaginative Assault," Tablet, 28 May, is excerpted from Balint's Running Commentary: The Contentious Magazine That Transformed the Jewish Left Into the Neoconservative Right.

Jonathan Yardley reviews Harvey G. Cohen's Duke Ellington's America for the Washington Post, 30 May.

Eric Banks,"The Art Dealer of the Century," Slate, 31 May, Peter Schjeldahl,"Leo the Lion," New Yorker, 7 June, and Mark Stevens,"Dapper Dealer," bookforum, June/August, review Annie Cohen-Solal's Leo & His Circle: The Life of Leo Castelli, translated by Mark Polizzotti.

Brian Beutler,"Top Moments In Politicians Lying About Military Service," TPM, 31 May, looks at the recent history of American politicians who lied about their military service. Beutler describes my nominee, Douglas Stringfellow, as"an oldie, but a goodie." Does every war have its liars who become politicians?

Nicholas Kristof's"The Gadfly," NYT, 20 May, a review of Ayaan Hirsi Ali's Nomad: From Islam to America, A Personal Journey Through the Clash of Civilizations provokes a reply from Andrew Roberts.