Jun 25, 2011

Notes Medieval & Modern

by Cliopatria

Elizabeth Gumport, "Against Reviews," n+1, 23 June, makes her case. Nonetheless, ...

Sholto Byrnes reviews Hywel Williams's Emperor of the West: Charlemagne and the Carolingian Empire for the National, 24 June.

Eamon Duffy reviews "Treasures of Heaven: saints, relics and devotion in medieval Europe," an exhibit at the British Museum, for the Guardian, 24 June.

James Camp reviews Rachel Shteir's The Steal: A Cultural History of Shoplifting for the New York Observer, 21 June.

Trev Broughton, "Virginia Woolf's late essays," TLS, 22 June, reviews Stuart N. Clarke, ed., The Essays of Virginia Wolfe, Vol. VI, 1933-1941; Wolfe's The Waves, ed. by Michael Herbert and Susan Sellers; and Wolfe's Between the Acts, ed. by Mark Hussey.

Richard J. Evans reviews Gerald Steinacher's Nazis on the Run: How Hitler's Henchmen Fled Justice for the Guardian, 24 June.

Paul Krugman and Robin Wells, "The Busts Keep Getting Bigger: Why?" NYRB, 14 July, reviews Jeff Madrick's Age of Greed: The Triumph of Finance and the Decline of America, 1970 to the Present .

Dana Goldstein, "Diane Ravitch, the Anti-Rhee," Washington City Paper, 24 June, profiles the historian as education reformer.