Weak Endnotes

Caleb Crain,"English, the Omnivorous Tongue," NY Sun, 4 September, reviews Henry Hitchings's The Secret Life of Words. Blogging at Steamboats Are Ruining Everything, Crain won last year's Cliopatria Award for Best Writer.

Nicolas Rapold,"This Old House," NY Sun, 5 September. When film critic Godfrey Cheshire hears that his family's ancestral plantation home in North Carolina is to be moved, he decides to make a documentary film,"Moving Midway," about it. In making the film, he meets his African American cousins, including NYU's Robert Hinton.

Joyce Carol Oates,"The Woman in White," NYRB, 25 September, reviews Christopher Benfey's A Summer of Hummingbirds: Love, Art, and Scandal in the Intersecting Worlds of Emily Dickinson, Mark Twain, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Martin Johnson Heade and Brenda Wineapple's White Heat: The Friendship of Emily Dickinson and Thomas Wentworth Higginson.