More Noted Things

Today is your last chance to nominate candidates for Cliopatria Awards, 2010: Best Group Blog, Best Individual Blog, Best New Blog, Best Post, Best Series of Posts, and Best Writer. The committees of judges will reach their decisions during December and winners will be announced in conjunction with the American Historical Association convention in early January.

Eric Banks reviews Simon Winchester's Atlantic: Great Sea Battles, Heroic Discoveries, Titanic Storms, and a Vast Ocean of a Million Stories for the Barnes & Noble Review, 18 November.

James R. Oestreich,"Celebrating a Man With Many Acolytes," NYT, 29 November, reviews Norman Lebrecht's Why Mahler? How One Man and Ten Symphonies Changed Our World.

Chloe Schama,"The Duchess Tells All," Daily Beast, 25 November, reviews Duchess Deborah Mitford Devonshire's Wait for Me! Memoirs and In Tearing Haste: Letters between Deborah Devonshire and Patrick Leigh Fermor.

Michelle Goldberg,"How Palin Flunks Feminism," Daily Beast, 26 November, tracks Sarah Palin's misinterpretation of the history of feminism.

Timothy Garton Ash,"US embassy cables: A banquet of secrets," Guardian, 28 November, argues that the Wikileaks document dump is"a diplomat's nightmare," but"a historian's dream."