Modern American Notes

Jill Lepore,"Baby Talk: The Fuss about Parenthood," New Yorker, 29 June, reviews Michael Lewis's Home Game: An Accidental Guide to Fatherhood and Ayelet Waldman's Bad Mother: A Chronicle of Maternal Crimes, Minor Calamities, and Occasional Moments of Grace.

Adam Kirsch,"Mixed Record," Tablet, 16 June, and David Oshinsky,"Saint Izzy," Slate, 23 June, review D. D. Gutterplan's American Radical: The Life and Times of I.F. Stone.

Philip Davis,"Charm and Death," Literary Review, July, and Adam Kirsch,"The Binding of Isaac," New Republic, 1 July, review Steven J. Zipperstein's Rosenfeld's Lives: Fame, Oblivion, and the Furies of Writing.

Michiko Kakutani,"The Rumsfeldian Persona and Its Role in the Iraq War," NYT, 22 June, reviews Bradley Graham's By His Own Rules: The Ambitions, Successes, and Ultimate Failures of Donald Rumsfeld.