Weak Endnotes

Carnival of Genealogy, 108th Edition, is up at Creative Gene.

Tim Richardson, "Stag Parties," Literary Review, August, reviews John Fletcher's Gardens of Earthly Delight: The History of Deer Parks.

Toni Bentley, "Vita and Violet: The Greatest Bloomsbury Love Story," NYT, 4 August, and Dwight Garner, "In the Fast Company of Women on the Edge," NYT, 4 August, reviews Michael Holroyd's A Book of Secrets: Illegitimate Daughters, Absent Fathers. .

Holland Cotter, "Populating the Landscape With Idealism," NYT, 4 August, reviews Pissarro's People, an exhibit at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Massachusetts.

Sophie Roeli interviews Cliopatria's friend, Abu Aardvark, "Marc Lynch on Origins of the Arab Uprising," The Browser, 5 August.

In Paul Constant, "Books Without Borders," The Stranger, 2 August, a former employee tells the story of the bookstore chain's self-destruction.