Things Noted Here and There

Tom Holland,"Passing the dormouse test," Guardian, 20 September, reviews Mary Beard's Pompeii: The Life of a Roman Town.

The LA Daily News profiles Jay Rubenstein, the University of Tennessee's MacArthur Prize-winning medievalist. Hat tip.

Ronan Bennett,"Brute Force," Guardian, 20 September, reviews Micheál Ó Siochrú's God's Executioner: Oliver Cromwell and the Conquest of Ireland.

Ian Pindar reviews Paul Anderson, ed., Orwell in Tribune: 'As I Please' and Other Writings 1943-7 for the Guardian, 20 September.

In the NYT Magazine's"College Issue," Jonathan Mahler's"The Thinker" features the chairman of Auburn University's philosophy department, Kelly Jolley. The article sparks a lively discussion at Neddy Merrill's"Spelunking," Edge of the American West, 21 September.