Weak Endnotes
Allison Flood,"American literary prize blacklists Random House," Guardian, 29 August, reports that the Langum Charitable Trust, which gives annual prizes for a work of American historical fiction and a work of American legal history or biography, will not consider books published by Random House until it reverses its decision not to publish Sherry Jones's novel, The Jewel of Medina.
Adam Hochschild,"With the Best Intentions," NYT, 29 August, reviews Gary J. Bass's Freedom's Battle: The Origins of Humanitarian Intervention.
Adam Kirsch,"The Magic Mountain," NY Sun, 29 August, reviews a new English edition of the 19th century Austrian novelist, Adalbert Stifter's Rock Crystal.
Jim Holt,"Two of a Kind," NYT, 29 August, reviews David Lebedoff's The Same Man: George Orwell and Evelyn Waugh in Love and War.
Ruth Rosen,"Sarah Palin and Feminists for Life," TPM Café, 29 August, argues that John McCain's nomination of Sarah Palin for Vice President is an insult to most American women.
Finally, Rebecca Atwood's"A clear case of 'laxative enforcement policies'," THE, 28 August, and Donald MacLeod's"Student 'escape goats' get caught by academics," Guardian, 28 August, feature our charges' latest round of howlers.