Apr 28, 2011

Thursday's Notes

by Cliopatria

Kathryn Schulz, "Life of the Party," LARB, 25 April, reviews Sarah Bakewell's How to Live: or, A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer.

Mark Brown, "Lost archive shows Wittgenstein in a new light," Guardian, 26 April, suggests that a major collection of the philosopher's papers will reshape Wittgenstein scholarship.

Kanan Makiya, "What Is Totalitarian Art?" Foreign Affairs, May/June, reviews Igor Golomstock's and Robert Chandler's Totalitarian Art: In the Soviet Union, the Third Reich, Fascist Italy and The People's Republic of China.

Christine Stansell, "Hidden in Plain Sight," The Book, 28 April, reviews Leila Ahmed A Quiet Revolution: The Veil's Resurgence, from the Middle East to America.

Finally, farewell to Duke's Joel Colton. In his department, R. R. Palmer's and Colton's A History of the Modern World introduced me to serious academic history. I never looked back.