More Noted Things

For reports from the 15th Berkshire Conference on Women's History, meeting at Amherst, see: Blogenspiel, Cliotropic, Knitting Clio, jliedl.ca, Scattered and Random, and Tenured Radical (and scroll down).

Jenny Davidson, "Guided by the Lit: Or how two classic authors became contemporary life coaches," bookforum, Summer, reviews William Deresiewicz's A Jane Austen Education: How Six Novels Taught Me About Love, Friendship, and the Things That Really Matter and Sarah Bakewell's How to Live: Or A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer.

Henry Allen, "Thinking Inside the Box," WSJ, 11 June, reviews Christopher Turner's Adventures in the Orgasmatron: How the Sexual Revolution Came to America.

The Washington Post is a host to the National Archives and Records Administration's online release of the Pentagon Papers. At the last minute, the eleven words that were to be redacted were included in the release. Ed O'Keefe, "Pentagon Papers released: How they did it," Federal Eye, 13 June, has the background.

You may recall Errol Morris's series in early March, "The Ashtray," at Opinionator about his experience at Princeton with Thomas Kuhn. It drew very strong responses then. In addition to extensive discussions at his posts, see, for example: Lukas, "Errol Morris, Kuhn & the Ashtray," American Science: A Team Blog, 10 March. Dave Maier, "Errol Morris on Wittgenstein, or someone like him in certain respects," 3 Quarks Daily, 13 June, renews discussion of some of the issues.