Weak Endnotes

Garry Wills,"Closer Than Ever to Vergil," NYRB, 12 March, reviews Vergil's The Aeneid, translated by Sarah Ruden.

Caleb Crain,"Random facts of kindness," The National, 27 February, reviews On Kindness by the historian Barbara Taylor and the psychoanalyst Adam Phillips.

Laura Miller,"Why can't a woman write the Great American Novel?" Salon, 27 February, reviews Elaine Showalter's A Jury of Her Peers: American Women Writers from Anne Bradstreet to Annie Proulx.

Joy Williams,"Stranger Than Paradise," NYT, 26 February, reviews Brad Gooch's Flannery, the new biography of Flannery O'Connor.

John Derbyshire,"How Radio Wrecks the Right," American Conservative, 23 February, attacks the" comfort food" Limbaugh and Co. feed their right-wing audience.