Sunday's Notes

On Wednesday 1 July, Brett Schulte will host History Carnival LXXVIII at TOCWOC -- A Civil War Blog. You can nominate the best in June's history blogging for inclusion in the festival by using the TOCWOC contact or the History Carnival's nomination forms.

Paul Bloom,"No Smiting," NYT, 24 June, and Dan Cryer,"Survival of the nicest," Boston Globe, 28 June, review Robert Wright's The Evolution of God. Take no comfort in't.

Christopher Hitchens,"The Lovely Stones," Vanity Fair, July, visits Athens' Acropolis Museum.

Tunku Varadaradanjan,"Seeking Pleasure Far From Home," WSJ, 9 June, reviews Richard Bernstein's The East, the West, and Sex: A History of Erotic Encounters.

Stephen Mihm,"The Modernizers," NYT, 25 June, reviews Gavin Weightman's The Industrial Revolutionaries: The Making of the Modern World, 1776-1914.

Jeremy McCarter,"Liked but Not Well Liked," NYT, 24 June, reviews Christopher Higby's Arthur Miller, 1915-1962.

Hugh Haughton,"Not Yet I," Literary Review, June, reviews Martha Dow Fehsenfeld and Lois More Overbeck, eds., The Letters of Samuel Beckett 1929-1940.

In"Historians' Advice for Dick Cheney," NYT, 27 June, Joseph J. Ellis, Richard Reeves, Jean Baker, David Levering Lewis, Alonzo L. Hamby, Kathleen Dalton, Mary Stuckey, Robert Dallek, and H.W. Brands have suggestions for former Vice President Richard Cheney as he prepares to publish his memoirs.