More Noted Things

John Wilson discusses Eugene Genovese's new book, Miss Betsey: A Memoir of Marriage at Books & Culture Podcast, 1 May. The memoir of his life with Elizabeth Fox-Genovese bears endorsements from Natalie Zemon Davis, Jean Bethge Elshtain, Paul Gottfried, and Wilfred McClay. I hope Gene will do a second memoir, focusing primarily on his own career.

Hugh Eakin,"Who Should Own the World's Antiquities?" NYRB, 14 May, reviews James Cuno's Who Owns Antiquity? Museums and the Battle Over Our Ancient Heritage and Cuno, ed., Whose Culture? The Promise of Museums and the Debate Over Antiquities.

Michiko Kakutani,"A Towering Playwright's Tiny Library," NYT, 4 May, reviews Jonathan Bate's Soul of the Age: A Biography of the Mind of William Shakespeare.

Ernest B. Furgurson,"The Key in Lincoln's Pocket," Washington Post, 3 May, reviews Winston Groom's Vicksburg, 1863.

Dwight Garner,"Helen Gurley Brown: The Original Carrie Bradshaw," NYT, 21 April, Judith Thurman,"Helenism," New Yorker, 11 May, and Naomi Wolf,"Who Won Feminism?" Washington Post, 3 May, review Jennifer Scanlon's new biography of Helen Gurley Brown, Bad Girls Go Everywhere.

Christopher Caldwell,"The Great Enigma," NYT, 1 May, reviews James Mann's The Rebellion of Ronald Reagan: A History of the End of the Cold War and William Kleinknecht's The Man Who Sold the World: Ronald Reagan and the Betrayal of Main Street America.