Wednesday's Notes

Andrew Roberts,"The Green-Ink Brigade," Literary Review, May, reviews David Aaronovitch's Voodoo Histories: The Role of the Conspiracy Theory in Shaping Modern History.

Elspeth Barker,"Getting on with it," Literary Review, May, reviews Elaine Showalter's A Jury of her Peers: American Women Writers from Anne Bradstreet to Annie Proulx.

hilzoy,"About That Georgia Nullification Resolution ...," Obsidian Wings, 8 May, points out that Georgia's resolutions of state sovereignty is a lightly edited version of Thomas Jefferson's"Resolutions Related To The Alien And Sedition Acts," which were adopted by the Kentucky legislature in 1798.

Alan Ryan,"A Capital Fellow," Literary Review, May, reviews Tristram Hunt's The Frock-Coated Communist: The Revolutionary Life of Friedrich Engels.

Charles Matthews,"The Great and Powerful 'Oz'," Washington Post, 12 May, reviews Evan I. Schwartz's Finding Oz: How L. Frank Baum Discovered the Great American Story.

Istvan Deak,"Honor's Gasp," TNR, 20 May, reviews Philipp Freiherr von Boeselager's Valkyrie: The Story Of The Plot To Kill Hitler, By Its Last Member, trans. by Steven Rendall.