Jul 11, 2010

Sunday's Notes

by Cliopatria

A. N. Wilson reviews Adam Sisman's Hugh Trevor-Roper: The Biography for The Guardian, 11 July.

A Christopher Hill symposium:

R. C. Richardson, THE, 24 June

Christopher Thompson, Early Modern History, 25 June

J. N. Nielson, Geopolicraticus, 26 June

Nick Poyntz, Mercurius Politicus, 3 July.

Isaac Chotiner,"An Opiate of the People," NYT, 11 July, reviews Elizabeth Abbott's Sugar: A Bittersweet History.

Ben Downing,"Love's Pestilence," NYT, 11 July, reviews Daisy Hay's Young Romantics: The Tangled Lives of English Poetry's Greatest Generation.

Carol Vogel,"High-Tech Matisse," NYT, 11 July, reviews"Matisse: Radical Invention, 1913-1917," an exhibit opening next week at Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art.

Wendy Smith reviews Kevin Starr's Golden Gate: The Life and Times of America's Greatest Bridge and Michael Hiltzik's Colossus: Hoover Dam and the Making of the American Century for the LA Times, 11 July.

Michael Sims reviews Robert Stevens's Yvon's Paris and Graham Robb's Parisians: An Adventure History of Paris for the Washington Post, 9 July.