Thursday's Notes
John Fea,"Was George Washington a Christian?" AOL News, 22 February, draws 1750 comments from its readers.
T. A. Frail,"The Invisible Line Between Black and White," Smithsonian.com, 18 February, interviews Vanderbilt's Daniel Sharfstein, the author of The Invisible Line: Three American Families and the Secret Journey from Black to White. Ray Arsenault,"Shades of White," NYT, 25 February, reviews the book.
Terry Eagleton,"Indomitable," LRB, 3 March, reviews Eric Hobsbawm's How to Change the World: Marx and Marxism 1840-2011.
In her first LRB Lecture at the British Museum, Judith Butler's"Who Owns Kafka?" LRB, 3 March, discusses the commodification of Franz Kafka.
Steven E. Aschheim,"Between New York and Jerusalem," Jewish Review of Books, Winter, reviews Marie Luise Knott, with David Heredia, ed., Der Briefwechsel: Hannah Arendt, Gershom Scholem.