Mar 12, 2011

Midweek Notes

by Cliopatria

Adina Hoffman,"City of God," bookforum, Feb/March, and Adam Kirsch,"Evil Inclination," Tablet, 8 March, review James Carroll's Jerusalem, Jerusalem: How the Ancient City Ignited Our Modern World.

Frank Dikötter,"Our Killer Applications," Literary Review, March, reviews Niall Ferguson's Civilization: The West and the Rest.

Amanda Foreman,"The Earth Moved for Him," Literary Review, March, reviews Jane Brown's The Omnipotent Magician: Lancelot 'Capability' Brown, 1716-1783.

Keith Miller,"Shelley's monster and Shelley's ghosts," TLS, 2 March, reviews the National Theatre's production of Nick Dear's adaptation of Mary Shelley's"Frankenstein." Benjamin Markovitz,"Shelley's Paper Trails," TLS, 2 March, reviews"Shelley's Ghost: Reshaping the Image of a Literary Family," an exhibit at Oxford's Bodlean Library, and Stephen Hebron and Elizabeth C. Denlinger, eds., Shelley's Ghost: Reshaping the image of a literary family.

Elaine Showalter,"Paradise Unachieved," Literary Review, March, reviews Richard Francis's Fruitlands: The Alcott Family and Their Search for Utopia.

Claudia FitzHerbert for the Telegraph, 25 February, Sarah Bradford,"Not All Facade," Literary Review, March, and Alexandra Harris for the Guardian, 5 March, review Richard Greene's Edith Sitwell: Avant Garde Poet, English Genius.

Hannah Brooks-Motl,"Pieces Falling Into Place," The Book, 7 March, reviews Joelle Biele, ed., Elizabeth Bishop and The New Yorker: The Complete Correspondence.

In Errol Morris,"The Ashtray: The Ultimatum (Part 1)," Opinionator, 6 March, Thomas Kuhn first throws an ashtray and then tosses Morris, his graduate student, out of Princeton. Morris,"The Ashtray: Shifting Paradigms (Part 2)," Opinionator, 7 March, continues the story. Parts 1 & 2 of 5 from the winner of a Cliopatria Award for best series of posts.

Michael Burleigh,"Inciter-In-Chief," Literary Review, reviews Michael Scheuer's Osama bin Laden. Chris Bray reviews Bing West's The Wrong War: Grit, Strategy, and the Way Out of Afghanistan for the Washington Post, 6 March.