More Noted Things

Andy Guess,"The Little Engine That Can," IHE, 4 September, features the History Engine's"tools for collaborative education & research," an Ed Ayres project, newly relocated to a University of Richmond site.

Jonathan Mirsky,"Animals Before the Fall," Literary Review, September, reviews Philip Hoare's Leviathan, or The Whale.

Lisa Foderaro,"Historic Fort Sustains a Breach," NYT, 3 September, discusses the financial distress of historic Fort Ticonderoga in upstate New York; Edward Rothstein,"Away Down South, 2 Museums Grapple With the Civil War Story," NYT, 2 September, looks at changes at Richmond, Virginia's American Civil War Center and Museum of the Confederacy; and Philip Kennicott,"Character Study," Washington Post, 31 August, features Edith Wharton's The Mount, now a house museum in the Berkshires, facing serious financial challenges.

Patricia Cohen,"Author Gives Voice to Artists' Silent Muses, Their Wives," NYT, 3 September, reviews Ruth Butler's Hidden in the Shadow of the Master: The Model-Wives of Cézanne, Monet and Rodin.

Zadie Smith,"F. Kafka, Everyman," NYRB, 1 September, reviews Louis Begley's The Tremendous World I Have Inside My Head: Franz Kafka: A Biographical Essay.

Rolf Potts,"The Henry Ford of Literature," The Believer, September, looks at the work of Emanuel Haldeman-Julius (1889-1951), whose Little Blue Books sold 300,000,000 copies for as little as a nickel a piece.

Christopher Hitchens,"Master of Conventions," Atlantic, September, reviews the NYRB's new edition of Norman Mailer's Miami and the Siege of Chicago.