Sep 4, 2010

Weak Endnotes

by Cliopatria

G. W. Bowersock,"The Warrior-Humanist," TNR, 4 September, pays tribute to the distinguished classicist, Bernard M. W. Knox.

Paula Humfrey reviews R. C. Richardson's Household Servants in Early Modern England for the THE, 2 September.

Alex Danchev reviews Michael Fried's The Moment of Caravaggio for the THE, 2 September.

Joan DeJean,"Rooms Worth Keeping," Opinionator, 2 September, considers"the attraction of the recreations of historic rooms found in so many museums."

Christopher Hart,"The Drunken Member," Literary Review, September, reviews Catharine Arnold's City of Sin: London and Its Vices.

Edmund White,"The Beats: Pictures of a Legend," NYRB, 19 August, reviews"Beat Memories: The Photographs of Allen Ginsberg," an exhibit at Washington, DC's National Gallery of Art.

Simon Akam,"The Rest of Munich," The Book, 3 September, reviews Kay Schiller's and Christopher Young's The 1972 Munich Olympics and the Making of Modern Germany.

David A. Bell,"What Can France Teach Us About Botched Immigration Policies?" TNR, 3 September, thinks that the United States of Arizona can learn from the French experience.