Giant's Shoulders #30, the history of science carnival, is up at Whewell's Ghost. Rebekah Higgitts' theme is"A (Scientific) Christmas Carol".

Randy Kennedy,"Lawyers Fix Their Eyes on Blind Lady Justice," NYT, 15 December, reviews Judith Resnik's and Dennis Curtis's Representing Justice: Invention, Controversy, and Rights in City-States and Democratic Courtrooms.

Elaine Showalter reviews Susan Cheever's Louisa May Alcott: A Personal Biography for the Washington Post, 14 December.

Deborah Lipstadt,"Monumental," Tablet, 10 December, and Timothy Snyder,"The Holocaust We Don't See," NYRBlog, 15 December, recall Claude Lanzmann's"Shoah" 25 years after its first release. The film is showing again this month in New York City and will show nationally in 2011.

Robert Boyers,"After the Revolution," The Book, 15 December, reviews Gabriel Josipovici's What Ever Happened To Modernism?