Things Noted Here and There

Ofri Hani,"Junior lecturers to disrupt studies in protest against work conditions," Haaretz, 11 May, covers adjunct faculty's expected disruption of study at major Israeli universities this week. Thanks to Brian Ulrich for the tip.

Michael Sims,"From Wild Things to Happy Readers," Washington Post, 11 May, reviews Seth Lerer's Children's Literature: A Reader's History, from Aesop to Harry Potter and Leonard S. Marcus's Minders of Make-Believe: Idealists, Entrepreneurs, and the Shaping of American Children's Literature.

Alan Wolfe,"The Forgotten Philosopher," CHE, 9 May, reviews Richard Reeves's John Stuart Mill: Victorian Firebrand.

Geoffrey Wheatcroft,"Churchill and His Myths," NYRB, 29 May, reviews Nicholson Baker's Human Smoke: The Beginnings of World War II, the End of Civilization, Patrick Buchanan's Churchill, Hitler, and"The Unnecessary War": How Britain Lost the Empire and the West Lost the World, John Lukacs' Blood, Toil, Tears and Sweat: The Dire Warning, and Lynne Olson's Troublesome Young Men: The Rebels Who Brought Churchill to Power and Helped Save England.

James Glanz,"Man in a Black Turban," NYT, 11 May, reviews Patrick Cockburn's Muqtada: Muqtada Al-Sadr, the Shia Revival, and the Struggle for Iraq.