More Noted Things

History Carnival LXXXIX goes up at Jon Dresner's World History on Thursday 1 July. Send nominations of the best in June's history blogging via a comment here, via e-mail to jonathan*@*froginawell*.*net, or by using the form.

Ben Wallace-Wells,"The Death Lovers,"The Book, 29 June, reviews Elisabeth Hardouin-Fugier's Bullfighting: A Troubled History, translated by Sue Rose.

David Greasley reviews Joel Mokyr's The Enlightened Economy: An Economic History Of Britain, 1700-1850 for BBC History, nd.

Laura Miller reviews Christiane Bird's The Sultan's Shadow: One Family's Rule at the Crossroads of East and West for Salon, 27 June.

Jim Sleeper,"Pride and Prejudice," bookforum, June/August; and George Packer,"Air America," New Yorker, 28 June, review Peter Beinart's The Icarus Syndrome: A History of American Hubris.

Adam Kirsch,"Emily Dickinson's New Secret," Slate, 28 June, reviews Lyndall Gordon's Lives Like Loaded Guns: Emily Dickinson and Her Family's Feuds.

Jonathan Rée,"Variety," New Humanist, July/August, recalls the life of William James a century later.

Marie Gottschalk,"American Hell," The Book, 28 June, reviews Robert Perkinson's Texas Tough: The Rise of America's Prison Empire.

Chris Bray,"The Fog of War Writing," bookforum, June/August, reviews Benjamin Tupper's Greetings from Afghanistan, Send More Ammo and Megan Stack's Every Man in This Village Is a Liar.