Feb 3, 2011

Thursday's Notes

by Cliopatria

The Biblical Studies Carnival for January 2011 is up at Zwinglius Redivivus.

Googleartproject.com takes you into 17 of the world's finest art museums, where you can move from room to room and view over 1000 works by 400 artists in great detail.

Tom Holland for the Telegraph, 23 January, Bruce Anderson,"City of Gods," Prospect, 26 January, and Anthony Beevor for the Guardian, 29 January, review Simon Sebag Montefiore's Jerusalem: The Biography.

Ingrid D. Rowland,"Saving Alexandria," NYRBlog, 1 February, looks at the risk of damage to Alexandria's new Bibliotheca Alexandrina. Mary Beard has been posting first hand accounts from her son in Cairo.

Adrian Tinniswood,"Dipping Their Quills," Literary Review, February, reviews John Stubbs's Reprobates: The Cavaliers of the English Civil War.

Steven J. Zipperstein,"Urban Legend," The Book, 1 February, reviews Charles King's Odessa: Genius and Death in a City of Dreams.

Christopher Benfey,"Head in the Clouds," Slate, 2 February, examines John Constable's" cloud studies" at the Yale Center for British Art. Don't miss the slide show.

Tim Blanning,"'I have beaten them all! All!'" Literary Review, February, reviews Jonathan Steinberg's Bismarck: A Life.