Sunday's Notes

Pankaj Mishra,"Another Incarnation," NYT, 24 April, reviews Wendy Doniger's The Hindus: An Alternative History.

Roger Cohen,"America Unmasked," NYT, 24 April, reviews Godfrey Hodgson's The Myth of American Exceptionalism.

Louise Richardson,"Malicious Intent," NYT, 24 April, reviews Michael Burleigh's Blood and Rage: A Cultural History of Terrorism.

Laura Tyson Li,"The Final Triumph of Chiang Kai-shek," Washington Post, 26 April, reviews Jay Taylor's The Generalissimo: Chiang Kai-Shek and the Struggle for Modern China.

Adam Kirsch,"About-Face," nextbook, 23 March, reviews Michael Kimmage's The Conservative Turn: Lionel Trilling, Whittaker Chambers, and the Lessons of Anti-Communism.

Seth Shulman,"Secret Accidents and Lost Bombs," Washington Post, 19 April, reviews Barbara Moran's The Day We Lost the H-Bomb: Cold War, Hot Nukes, and the Worst Nuclear Weapons Disaster in History and Todd Tucker's Atomic America: How a Deadly Explosion and a Feared Admiral Changed the Course of Nuclear History.