Mid-Week Notes

Geoffrey Wheatcroft,"Tony Judt Obituary," Guardian, 8 August, should be the obituary of record."In the 1960s, Cambridge produced a remarkable generation of historians – David Cannadine, Linda Colley and Simon Schama among others – but one name acquired a particular resonance. ...."

Adam Kirsch,"Convert's Tale," The Book, 10 August, reviews Jean-Claude Schmitt and and Alex J. Novikoff, The Conversion of Herman the Jew: Autobiography, History, and Fiction in the Twelfth Century.

Nathan Perl-Rosenthal,"The Wise Men," The Book, 11 August, reviews Jack Rakove's Revolutionaries: A New History of the Invention of America.

Ann Trubek reviews Ilyon Woo's The Great Divorce: A Nineteenth-Century Mother's Extraordinary Fight Against Her Husband, the Shakers, and Her Times for the Barnes & Noble Review, 4 August.

Charles McGrath,"Charlie Chan: A Stereotype and a Hero," NYT, 10 August, reviews Yunte Huang's Charlie Chan: The Untold Story of the Honorable Detective and His Rendezvous With American History.

Michael Dirda,"James Lees-Milne," Barnes & Noble Review, 10 August, is an essay about a man widely regarded as 20th century England's most entertaining diarist.