Wednesday's Notes

Will the recession put an end to conference job interviews? Claire Potter,"More Annals of the Great Depression: Whither The Conference Interview?" Tenured Radical, 7 July.

Michael Kimmelman,"Stolen Beauty: A Greek Urn's Underworld," NYT, 7 July, reviews Vernon Silver's The Lost Chalice: The Epic Hunt for a Priceless Masterpiece.

Johann Hari,"The Birth, and Death, of the Asian Babe," Slate, 29 June, reviews Richard Bernstein's The East, the West, and Sex: A History of Erotic Encounters.

Peter Gwyn reviews Kevin Sharpe's Selling the Tudor Monarchy: Authority and Image in Sixteenth-Century England for the THES, 2 July.

Scott McLemee interviews Immanuel Ness of Brooklyn College, who edited the new 7 volume International Encyclopedia of Revolution and Protest, 1500 to the Present.

Ulrike Zitzlsperger reviews Despina Stratigakos's A Women's Berlin: Building the Modern City for the THES, 2 July.

For the New Statesman, 2 July, John Derbyshire interviews Niall Ferguson about the current financial crisis.