More Noted Things

Catherine Price, "Breast Friends," Slate, 6 July, reviews Deborah Valenze's Milk: A Global and Local History.

John Swansburg and Happy Menocal, "The Art and Armor of the Knights of the Order of St. John," Slate, 12 July, is a slide show of Maurizio Urso's extraordinary photographs of Valletta, Malta's Co-Cathedral of St. John. They are from Dane Munro's Memento Mori.

Greg Grandin reviews Robin Blackburn's The American Crucible: Slavery, Emancipation and Human Rights for the Guardian, 8 July.

Jennifer Homans, "René Blum: Life of a Dance Master," NYT, 8 July, and Adam Kirsch, "Ballet Master," Tablet, 12 July, review Judith Chazin-Bennahum's René Blum and the Ballets Russes: In Search of a Lost Life.

Kamelia Angelova, "Vintage Photos: Take A Tour Of Manhattan In The 1940s," Business Insider, 11 July, is a slide show of the early 1940s and early 1960s photographs of New York City by Charles W. Cushman. With the rest of his work, they are now archived at Indiana University.

Rick Perlstein, "Betty Ford, Pioneer," NYT, 11 July, recalls a First Lady, whose courage found public support.

Freeman Dyson, "The ‘Dramatic Picture' of Richard Feynman," NYRB, 14 July, reviews Lawrence M. Krauss's Quantum Man: Richard Feynman's Life in Science and Jim Ottaviani's Feynman, with art by Leland Myrick and coloring by Hilary Sycamore.