Jun 4, 2009
Modern History Notes
"History students are most promiscuous," Telegraph, 30 May, at Oxford, at least. Hat tip.
Garry Wills,"Lincoln's Black History," NYRB, 11 June, reviews Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Donald Yacovone, eds., Lincoln on Race and Slavery.
Colm Tóibín,"The Admirable Mrs. James," NYRB, 11 June, reviews Susan E. Gunter's Alice in Jamesland: The Story of Alice Howe Gibbens James and Paul Fisher's House of Wits: An Intimate Portrait of the James Family.
Jonathan Keates,"Foreigners in Florence," TLS, 3 June, reviews Bernd Roeck's Florence 1900: The quest for Arcadia, translated by Stewart Spencer.
Martin Filler,"The Late Show," NYRB, 11 June, reviews"Picasso: Mosqueteros," an exhibit at the Gagosian Gallery in New York City.