Luc Sante,"In Search of Lost Paris," NYRB, 23 December, reviews Eric Hazan's The Invention of Paris: A History in Footsteps, trans. from the French by David Fernbach, and Graham Robb's Parisians: An Adventure History of Paris.Alan Taylor,"Did Walter Scott invent Scotland?" TLS, 8 December, reviews Stuart Kelly's Scott-Land: The man who invented a nation.
Following his review of Samuel Moyn's The Last Utopia: Human Rights in History,"A precarious ideal: the history of human rights," The National, 3 December, Scott McLemee interviews Moyn in"The Last Utopia," IHE, 8 December.
Peter Monaghan,"In Wagner, So Much More Than Heaving Bosoms," CHE, 28 November, reviews Laurence Dreyfus's Wagner and the Erotic Impulse.
Susan Gillman,"Mark Twain's ‘hundred-year book'," TLS, 8 December, reviews Harriet Elinor Smith, et al., eds., Autobiography of Mark Twain, I.
Dominic Sandbrook,"On His Majesty's Secret Service," The Book, 8 December, reviews Keith Jeffery's The Secret History of MI6: 1909-1949.
Charli Carpenter,"On The Wikileaks Manifesto," Lawyers, Guns, and Money, 8 December, takes on Aaron Bady's"Julian Assange and the Computer Conspiracy; ‘To destroy this invisible government'," zunguzungu, 29 November.Glenn Greenwald,"Anti-WikiLeaks lies and propaganda - from TNR, Lauer, Feinstein and more," Salon, 7 December, takes on Todd Gitlin's"Everything Is Data, but Data Isn't Everything," TNR, 7 December.
