Friday's Notes

Maurice Keen, "O My Chevalier," Literary Review, August, reviews Nigel Saul's For Honour and Fame: Chivalry in England, 1066-1500.

Robert Fraser, "John Donne in the labyrinth," TLS, 3 August, reviews Francesca Bugliani Knox's The Eye of the Eagle: John Donne and the legacy of Ignatius Loyola, Robin Robbins, ed., The Complete Poems of John Donne, and Jeanne Shami, Dennis Flynn and M. Thomas Hester, eds., The Oxford Book of John Donne.

Claire Harman, "Island Records," Literary Review, August, reviews Katherine Frank's Crusoe: Daniel Defoe, Robert Knox and the Creation of a Myth.

Anson Rabinbach, "The untold story of the city," TLS, 3 August, reviews Leif Jerram's Streetlife: The untold story of Europe's twentieth century.

Barton Swaim, "A Talent for Being There," WSJ, 2 August, reviews Steve Wick's The Long Night: William Shirer and the Rise and Fall of the Third Reich.

Steve Early, "Beyond the Fields," Jacobin, Spring, reviews the literature on Caesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers.

Nicholas Carr, "Past-Tense Pop," The Book, 4 August, reviews Simon Reynolds's Retromania: Pop Culture's Addiction to Its Own Past.

David Sehat, "Do evangelical Christian politicians help evangelicals?" OUPblog, 3 August, thinks not.

Finally, congratulations to Mike Dash. His "The Emperor's Electric Chair," A Blast from the Past, 9 September 2010, won last year's Cliopatria Award for Best Post. He'll continue blogging at A Blast, but he's also joining the Smithsonian's new history group blog, Past Imperfect.