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Mar 14, 2011

Things Noted Here & There




Isaac Chotiner,"Of Human Umbrage," The Book, 14 March, reviews Stefan Collini's That's Offensive! Criticism, Identity, Respect.

Wendy Smith reviews Toby Wilkinson's The Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt for the LA Times, 13 March.

Arnold Eisen,"Unveiled," Tablet, 11 March, previews"The Art of Matrimony: Thirty Splendid Marriage Contracts from The Jewish Theological Seminary Library," an exhibit at the Jewish Museum in Manhattan.

Kwame Anthony Appiah,"The First Liberal," Slate, 11 March, reviews Sarah Bakewell's How to Live: Or a Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer and Saul Frampton's When I Am Playing With My Cat How Do I Know That She Is Not Playing With Me?.

Pauline Maier reviews Maya Jasanoff's Liberty's Exiles: American Loyalists in a Revolutionary World for the Washington Post, 11 March.

Glenn Altschuler,"Russia's cultural elite before the revolution," Boston Globe, 10 March, reviews Solomon Volkov's Romanov Riches: Russian Writers and Artists Under the Tsars.

Georg Bönisch,"A Hero In His Own Mind," Der Spiegel, 10 March, reviews Thomas Weber's Hitler's First War: Adolf Hitler, the Men of the List Regiment, and the First World War.



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