Things Noted Here & There

Jonathan Yardley,"A Queen for the Ages," Washington Post, 3 May, reviews Diana Preston's Cleopatra and Antony: Power, Love, and Politics in the Ancient World.

Louis Bayard,"The Bard's Beautiful Mind," Washington Post, 28 April, reviews Jonathan Bate's Soul of the Age: A Biography of the Mind of William Shakespeare.

Noel Malcolm,"The Odd Couple," Standpoint, May, reviews Robert Zaretsky's and John T. Scott's The Philosophers' Quarrel: Rousseau, Hume, and the Limits of Human Understanding.

Scott Jaschik,"Going After a Scholar's Critic," IHE, 4 May, reports Guenther Lewy's lawsuit against the Southern Poverty Law Center for defamation.

Harvey Klehr, John Earl Haynes, Alexander Vassiliev,"I.F. Stone, Soviet Agent—Case Closed," Commentary, May, argues that the case that Izzy was a Soviet agent in the United States in the 1930s is conclusive.

Louis Bayard,"A Match Made in Heaven," Washington Post, 3 May, reviews Marshall Jon Fisher's A Terrible Splendor: Three Extraordinary Men . . . and the Greatest Tennis Match Ever . . .

Jennifer Baszile,"Voice of America," NYT, 1 May, reviews Ray Arsenault's The Sound of Freedom: Marian Anderson, the Lincoln Memorial, and the Concert That Awakened America.

Jennet Conant,"Inside Lend-Lease," NYT, 1 May, reviews Thomas Parrish's To Keep the British Isles Afloat: FDR's Men in Churchill's London, 1941.

Matthew Shaer,"The Prince of Washington," Washington Post, 3 May, reviews David B. Ottaway's The King's Messenger: Prince Bandar Bin Sultan and America's Tangled Relationship With Saudi Arabia.