Jul 15, 2008
More Noted Things
Our Father:
Tom Holland,"The histories, by Herodotus," Globe and Mail, 12 July, is the latest entry in the G&M's"50 Greatest Books" series.
Edith Hall,"The many ages of Herodotus," TLS, 25 June, reviews A. M. Bowie, ed., Herodotus: Histories, Book VIII, David Asheri, et al., A Commentary on Herodotus, Books I-IV, and Elizabeth Irwin and Emily Greenwood, eds., Reading Herodotus: A study of the Logoi in Book V of Herodotus' Histories.
Tom Holland,"The histories, by Herodotus," Globe and Mail, 12 July, is the latest entry in the G&M's"50 Greatest Books" series.
Edith Hall,"The many ages of Herodotus," TLS, 25 June, reviews A. M. Bowie, ed., Herodotus: Histories, Book VIII, David Asheri, et al., A Commentary on Herodotus, Books I-IV, and Elizabeth Irwin and Emily Greenwood, eds., Reading Herodotus: A study of the Logoi in Book V of Herodotus' Histories.
Current Events:
Elizabeth Kolbert,"Turf War," New Yorker, 21 July, looks at the American lawn since Andrew Jackson Downing's first treatise on it in 1841.
Michael Wood,"King of Infinite Space," NY Sun, 9 July, reviews Louis Begley's The Tremendous World I Have Inside My Head: Franz Kafka, A Biographical Essay.
Virginia Smith,"From Walter Rothschild to Gerald Durrell," TLS, 11 July, reviews Miriam Rothschild's Walter Rothschild: The man, the museum and the menagerie and Gerald Durrell's Menagerie Manor, Golden Bats and Pink Pigeons, and The Aye-Aye and I.
David Broder,"Obama's Enigma," Washington Post, 13 July, and Ryan Lizza,"Making It: How Chicago shaped Obama," New Yorker, 21 July, are essential reading for American voters.