Weak Endnotes

Marina Warner,"Did She Go Willingly?" LRB, 7 October, reviews Laurie Maguire's Helen of Troy: From Homer to Hollywood.

Michael Dirda reviews Cathy Porter, trans., The Diaries of Sophia Tolstoy for the Washington Post, 30 September.

Douglas Hurd reviews Keith Jeffrey's MI6: The History of the Secret Intelligence Service 1909–1949 for the Guardian, 2 October.

A.W. Purdue reviews Nicklaus Thomas-Symonds's Attlee: A Life in Politics for the THE, 30 September.

Finally, on Thursday, India's Allahabad High Court issued an 8,000 page decision, encompassing thousands of years of south Asian history and sixty years of litigation. It attempts to settle an old dispute between Hindus and Muslims over ownership and control of holy sites in the city of Ayodhya by dividing the land, two-thirds of it to Hindus and one-third of it to Muslims.