Midweek Notes

Ann Blair,"Information overload, the early years," Boston Globe, 28 November, argues that reactions to printing anticipated our sense of crisis.

John Tierney,"Murder! Intrigue! Astronomers?" NYT, 29 November, claims that Tycho Brahe's story should make the big screen.

Adam Kirsch,"Devastated," Tablet, 30 November, reviews Timothy Snyder's Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin.

Harry Chotiner,"European Invasion," The Book, 30 November, reviews Tino Balio's The Foreign Film Renaissance on American Screens, 1946-1973.

Dwight Garner,"Isherwood's Singular Second Wind," NYT, 30 November, reviews Christopher Isherwood's The Sixties: Diaries, Volume Two: 1960-1969.

Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey,"Spankin' Sarah Palin: A clown short of a circus," Moscow Top News, 2010, gives her a rough time of it.