Feb 14, 2011

Things Noted Here & There

by Cliopatria

The Giant's Shoulders #32, the history of science festival, goes up at Skulls in the Stars on Wednesday 16 February. Send nominations of the best in history of science blogging since mid-January to skullsinthestars*at* skullsinthestars*dot*com or use the form.

Carnivalesque LXXI, an ancient/medieval edition of the festival, goes up at Judith Weingarten's Zenobia, Empress of the East on Sunday 20 February. Use the form to nominate the best in ancient and medieval history blogging since 3 January.

Steve Donoghue reviews Bettany Hughes's The Hemlock Cup: Socrates, Athens, and the Search for the Good Life for the Washington Post, 13 February.

Michael Kenney,"How Revolutionary War losers turned defeat into success," Boston Globe, 12 February, and Andrew Roberts,"Why the American Revolution's Loyalists Are True Patriots," Daily Beast, 12 February, review Maya Jasanoff's Liberty's Exiles: American Loyalists in the Revolutionary World.

Steve Donoghue,"A somber finale for Theodore Roosevelt," The National, 11 February, reviews Edmund Morris's Colonel Roosevelt.

Cynthia Ozick,"Lasting Man," TNR, 10 February, reviews Benjamin Taylor, ed., Saul Bellow: Letters.

Leland de la Durantaye reviews Bernard Henri-Lévy's and Michel Houellebecq's Public Enemies: Dueling Writers Take On Each Other and the World for bookforum, 11 February.

Finally, farewell to Miriam Hansen, a distinguished University of Chicago film scholar.