More Noted Things

Errol Morris, winner of a Cliopatria Award for Best Series of Posts, has launched a new series with"The Anosognosic's Dilemma: Something's Wrong but You'll Never Know What It Is (Part 1)," Opinionator, 20 June; (Part 2), 21 June.

As recently as 25 May, Northwest History's Larry Cebula justified non-renewing his OAH membership in part on the grounds that the organization offered no recommendations about promoting and tenuring public historians. Er, read this and this, Larry.

Katherine Bouton,"Sorting Through the History of Science, With Plenty of Side Trips," NYT, 21 June, reviews Steven Shapin's Never Pure: Historical Studies of Science as if It Was Produced by People With Bodies, Situated in Time, Space, Culture, and Society, and Struggling for Credibility and Authority.

Max Byrd,"Man on the Run," Wilson Quarterly, Spring, reviews Michael Kranish's Flight from Monticello: Thomas Jefferson at War.

Laura Miller,"The First War on Terror," Salon, 20 June, reviews Alex Butterworth's The World That Never Was: A True Story of Dreamers, Schemers, Anarchists and Secret Agents.

Michael Levenson,"Aspects of the Novelist," Slate, 21 June, reviews Wendy Moffat's A Great Unrecorded History: A New Life of E. M. Forster and Frank Kermode's Concerning E. M. Forster.

Geoffrey Wheatcroft,"Eating Vichyssoise in Athens,"National Interest online, 30 April, reviews Pascal Bruckner's The Tyranny of Guilt: An Essay on Western Masochism and Theodore Dalrymple's The New Vichy Syndrome: Why European Intellectuals Surrender to Barbarism.