Aug 1, 2010

Sunday's Notes

by Cliopatria

Biblical Studies Carnival LIII is up at Jim West's Zwinglius Redivivus; and History Carnival XC is up at USHistoryBlog.

Had you noticed? Building a castle in France. Building a castle in Arkansas.

Andrea Wulf,"Colonials Abroad," NYT, 30 July, reviews Julie Flavell's When London was Capital of America.

Christopher Benfey,"Explosive Inheritance," NYT, 30 July, reviews Lyndall Gordon's Lives Like Loaded Guns: Emily Dickinson and Her Family's Feuds.

Liaquat Ahamed,"Yesterday's Banker," NYT, 30 July, reviews Niall Ferguson's High Financier: The Lives and Time of Siegmund Warburg.

Sean Lee,"A War of Words," The National, 29 July, reviews Gilbert Achcar's The Arabs and the Holocaust: The Arab-Israeli War of Narratives.

Damon Linker,"Turning Right," NYT, 30 July, reviews Benjamin Balint's Running Commentary: The Contentious Magazine That Transformed the Jewish Left Into the Neoconservative Right and Thomas L. Jeffers's Norman Podhoretz: A Biography.

Finally, farewell to Robert C. Tucker, a distinguished Sovietologist.