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Mar 22, 2009

Sunday's Notes




Carnivalesque XLVIII, an early modern edition of the festival, is up at Sarah Werner's Wynken de Worde.

Nelson Hernandez,"Buried Treasure," Washington Post, 22 March, reviews Jo Marchant's Decoding the Heavens: A 2000-Year-Old Computer -- and the Century-Long Search to Discover Its Secrets.

Danuta Schanzer reviews Valerie Allen's On Farting: Language and Laughter in the Middle Ages for Reviews in History, #733. Consider yourself forewarned ....

Alida Becker,"Twisted Sister," NYT, 19 March, reviews Flora Fraser's Pauline Bonaparte: Venus of Empire.

The National Museum of Health and Medicine has begun putting 19th and 20th century images from its Otis Historical Archives on Flickr. They are at: One, Two, Three, and Four.

Robert Bateman,"Remember the Somme," Washington Post, 22 March, reviews Peter Hart's The Somme.

Raymond Arsenault,"Ploys in the Hood," NYT, 19 March, reviews Beryl Satter's Family Properties: Race, Real Estate, and the Exploitation of Black Urban America.

Colm Toibin,"The Story Artist," NYT, 19 March, reviews Tracy Daugherty's Hiding Man: A Biography of Donald Barthelme.



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Manan Ahmed - 3/22/2009

I do believe that all future reviews (of anything) treat Schanzer as a template worthy of emulatin'. Best. Ever.