Friday's Notes
Sarah Williams Goldhagen,"On Background," TNR, 12 August, reviews Slobodan Curcic's and Evangelina Hadjitryphonos's Architecture as Icon: Perception and Representation of Architecture in Byzantine Art, the catalogue to the exhibit earlier this year at Princeton University's Art Museum.
Samuel Moyn,"Human Rights in History," Nation, 11 August, anticipates the publication of Moyn's new book of the same title.
"1906 Scanned Color Photos-GIS-Shaughnessy" is a selection of color photographs of central European scenes in 1906. Can you find Dachau? The photographs are scanned by Michael R. Shaughnessy of Washington and Jefferson College.
Carolyn See reviews Douglas Perry's The Girls of Murder City: Fame, Lust, and the Beautiful Killers who Inspired 'Chicago' for the Washington Post, 13 August.
John McWhorter,"Free the Black Looney Tunes!" The Root, 9 August, calls on Warner Home Video to release eleven racist cartoons that it has suppressed.
Michiko Kakutani,"When Life in Cuba Was Elegant and Sweet," NYT, 12 August, and Ann Louise Bardach for the Washington Post, 15 August, review John Paul Rathbone's The Sugar King of Havana: The Rise and Fall of Julio Lobo, Cuba's Last Tycoon.