Sunday's Notes

Military History Carnival #17 is up at Military History and Warfare. The Giant's Shoulders #3, the History of Science festival, goes up at Entertaining Research on Monday 15 September. Use the form to nominate the best in History of Science blogging since 15 August. Carnivalesque XVII, an ancient/medieval edition of the festival, goes up at Archaeoporn on Sunday 21 September. Use the nomination form or the host's contact form to nominate the best in ancient/medieval history blogging since 23 July.

Peter Parker reviews Giles Tillotson's Taj Mahal for the Telegraph, 13 September.

Fergus M. Bordewich,"American Roots," Washington Post, 14 September, reviews Annette Gordon-Reed's The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Story.

Margot Canaday,"We Colonials," Nation, 23 September, reviews William N. Eskridge, Jr.'s Dishonorable Passions: Sodomy Laws in America, 1861-2003.

Jonathan Yardley reviews Rick Wartzman's Obscene in the Extreme: The Burning and Banning of John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath for the Washington Post, 14 September.

Alan Riding,"Her Story," NYT, 14 September, reviews Lily Tuck's Woman of Rome: A Life of Elsa Morante.

Bruce Jay Friedman,"One for the Books," NYT, 13 September, reviews Al Silverman's The Time of Their Lives: The Golden Age of Great American Book Publishers, Their Editors and Authors.

Robert Stone,"On the Ground," NYT, 12 September, reviews Dexter Filkins's The Forever War, on the United States in Iraq.

Jonathan Tepperman,"We Got Trouble," NYT, 14 September, reviews Andrew J. Bacevich's The Limits of Power: The End of American Exceptionalism.