Sunday Notes

Harold Bloom,"The Lost Jewish Culture," NYRB, 28 June, reviews Peter Cole's The Dream of the Poem: Hebrew Poetry from Muslim and Christian Spain, 950-1492.

H. W. Brands,"A Glorious Beginning," Washington Post, 24 June, reviews Michael Barone's Our First Revolution: The Remarkable British Upheaval that Inspired America's Founding Fathers.

Michael Dirda,"One of England's most masterful craftsmen lived an enviable life," Washington Post, 24 June, reviews Jenny Uglow's Nature's Engraver: A Life of Thomas Bewick.

Robert Douglas Fairhurst,"Star Man," TLS, 20 June, reviews Archie Burnett's two volume edition of The Letters of A. E. Houseman.

Tina Brown,"Couples," NYT, 24 June, reviews Katie Roiphe's Uncommon Arrangements: Seven Portraits of Married Life in London Literary Circles, 1910-1939.

Richard Clogg,"Greek Lives and Times," TLS, 20 June, reviews a half dozen books on 20th century Greece.

Richard J. Evans,"Whose Orders?" NYT, 24 June, reviews Saul Friedländer's The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939-1945.