Modern Things Noted

Jamie Malanowski interviews Julie Flavell, the author of When London Was Capital of America, for Lucy Inglis's Georgian London, 4 February. Jill Lepore,"‘An Horrid Snow'," New Yorker, 1 February, recalls New England's"great snow" of 1717.

Adam Goodheart,"Violence and Retribution," NYT, 4 February, reviews Daniel Rasmussen's American Uprising: The Untold Story of America's Largest Slave Revolt.

Molly Worthen,"The Thirty-One Words," The Book, 7 February, reviews Jeffrey Owen Jones's and Peter Meyer's The Pledge: A History of the Pledge of Allegiance.

Holly Morris,"Polar Distress," NYT, 4 February, reviews Sara Wheeler's The Magnetic North: Notes From the Arctic Circle.

Ian Johnson,"Washington's Secret History with the Muslim Brotherhood," NYR Blog, 5 February, tells a little-known story. Jason Burke reviews Peter L. Bergen's The Longest War: The Enduring Conflict between America and Al-Qaeda for the Guardian, 6 February.

Sam Tanenhaus,"Daniel Bell, Master Builder," NYT, 3 February, assays a life's work; and John Summers,"Daniel Bell and The End of Ideology," Dissent, 1 February, re-examines his most important book.