Weak Endnotes

Lori Gottlieb,"Mother, Brace Yourself," NYT, 7 May, and"Worst mothers in literature," BookFinders.com Journal, 4 May, are antidotes to mothersday miasma. Hat tip.

Samuel D. Kassow,"A Tale Of Two Cities," TNR, 6 May, reviews Gordon J. Horwitz's Ghettostadt: Lodz and the Making of a Nazi City.

Harvey Klehr, John Earl Haynes, Alexander Vassiliev,"I.F. Stone, Soviet Agent—Case Closed," Commentary, May, v. D.D. Guttenplan,"Red Harvest: The KGB in America," Nation, 6 May.

John Gross,"Gentility Takes a Holiday," WSJ, 7 May, reviews David Castronovo's Blokes: The Bad Boys of British Literature. Hat tip.

Hendrik Hertzberg,"Bonkers in Georgia," New Yorker, 7 May, tracks state sovereignty sentiment among Southern Republicans.