Sunday's Notes

On Sunday 1 August, Biblical Studies Carnival LIII will go up at Jim West's Zwinglius Redivivus and History Carnival XC will go up at US History Blog. Nominations in Biblical Studies, especially in Hebrew Bible/Old Testament, are welcome here. Nominate the best in July's history blogging by writing to USHistorySite*@* gmail*.*com or use the form.

Daniel Gilbert,"The Errors of Our Ways," NYT, 25 July, reviews Kathryn Schulz's Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error.

Stephen Wade reviews David J. Cox's A Certain Share of Low Cunning: A History of the Bow Street Runners, 1792-1839 for THE, 22 July.

Pankaj Mishrah,"Posing as Fitness," NYT, 25 July, reviews Robert Love's The Great Oom: The Improbable Birth of Yoga in America and Stefanie Syman's The Subtle Body: The Story of Yoga in America.

David Leavitt,"Lives of the Novelists: Somerset Maugham," NYT, 25 July, reviews Selina Hastings's The Secret Lives of Somerset Maugham: A Biography. Colm Toibin,"Lives of the Novelists: E. M. Forster," NYT, 25 July, reviews Wendy Moffitt's A Great Unrecorded History: A New Life of E. M. Forster.

Richard Rayner,"Paperback Writers: Henry Miller's Grecian days," LA Times, 25 July, reviews a new edition of Miller's The Colossus of Maroussi.

Scott McConnell,"Thought Leader," American Conservative, August, reviews Benjamin Balint's Running Commentary: The Contentious Magazine that Transformed the Jewish Left into the Neoconservative Right.

Jeffrey Wasserstrom,"Will Communism Ever Fail in China?" Daily Beast, 23 July, reviews Richard McGregor's The Party: The Secret World of China's Communist Rulers.