Things Noted Here & There

David D'Arcy, "New book traces the Getty Museum's illegal acquisition of antiquities," The National, 31 July, reviews Jason Felch's and Ralph Frammolino's Chasing Aphrodite: The Hunt for Looted Antiquities at the World's Richest Museum.

Eric Jager, "I've Been Pirated," IHE, 1 August, discusses the French fictionalizing of his book, The Last Duel: A True Story of Crime, Scandal, and Trial By Combat in Medieval France, and its pirating for a Croatian edition.

Norman Ornstein, "Master of the Gilded Age Congress," NYT, 29 July, reviews James Grant's Mr. Speaker! The Life and Times of Thomas B. Reed, the Man Who Broke the Filibuster.

Mark Mazower, "Being German in 1945," NYT, 29 July, reviews Frederick Taylor's Exorcising Hitler: The Occupation and Denazification of Germany.

Nader Entessar for the Washington Independent Review of Books, [July], and Paul Muir, "The Forgotten Palestinians: a fresh perspective on the Nakba," The National, 29 July, review Ilan Pappé's The Forgotten Palestinians: A History of the Palestinians in Israel.

Akiva Gottlieb reviews J. Hoberman's An Army of Phantoms: American Movies and the Making of the Cold War for The National, 29 July.

Olivia Cole, "Diane Arbus's Dark Secrets," Daily Beast, 30 July, reviews William Todd Schultz's An Emergency in Slow Motion: The Inner Life of Diane Arbus.

Finally, congratulations to our colleague, Claire Potter, the Tenured Radical. She has accepted the offer of a new position at the New School in Manhattan.