Sunday's Notes

The Mad Hatter invites you to a Tea Party for Four Stone Hearth CII, the anthropology/archaeology carnival. It's up at Anthropology in Practice.

Jackie Wullschlager,"Caravaggio speaks to our times," Financial Times, October, reviews Michael Fried's The Moment of Caravaggio, Andrew Graham-Dixon's Caravaggio: A Life Sacred and Profane and Claudio Strinati, ed., Caravaggio.

Andrew Cayton,"Learning to Be Washington," NYT, 30 September, reviews Ron Chernow's Washington: A Life.

David S. Reynolds,"Learning to Be Lincoln," NYT, 30 September, reviews Eric Foner's The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery.

Jeremy Jennings,"Mao's Little Helpers," Standpoint, October, reviews Richard Wolin's The Wind from the East: French Intellectuals, the Cultural Revolution, and the Legacy of the 1960s.

Claire Messud,"The Uses of Enchantment," NYT, 30 September, reviews Donald Sturrock's Storyteller: The Authorized Biography of Roald Dahl.

In"Blood Without Guts," Guernica, October, Jake Whitney interviews Andrew Bacevich.