Modern History Notes
Michael Sims,"All the Dead Are Vampires," CHE, 13 June, draws from work on Sims's new anthology, Dracula's Guest: A Connoisseur's Collection of Victorian Vampire Stories.
Christopher Corbett,"The Pony Rides Again (and again)," American Heritage, 14 June, debunks the Pony Express mythology.
Philip Kennicott,"Upward Dog," The Book, 15 June, reviews Robert Love's The Great Oom: The Improbable Birth of Yoga in America and Stephanie Syman's The Subtle Body: The Story of Yoga in America.
Scott McLemee,"Psyched Out," bookforum, June/August, reviews Francois Dosse's Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari: Intersecting Lives.
Peter Steinfels,"All in the Mespoche," Democracy, Summer, reviews Benjamin Balint's Running Commentary: The Contentious Magazine That Turned the Jewish Left into the Neoconservative Right.