Emily Anthes,"Of Blood Transfusions and Beastliness," Wonderland, 16 March, interviews Vanderbilt's Holly Tucker, the author of Blood Work: A Tale of Medicine and Murder in the Scientific Revolution.

George Scialabba,"Das Capitalist," American Conservative, March, and Yuval Levin,"Morals and Markets," The Book, 21 March, review Nicholas Phillipson's Adam Smith: An Enlightened Life.

Jad Adams reviews Lesley A. Hall's The Life and Times of Stella Browne for the Guardian, 19 March; and Deborah Longworth reviews Richard Greene's Edith Sitwell: Avant Garde Poet, English Genius for the THE, 17 March.

Neil Tweedie,"I was the man who broke into Auschwitz," Telegraph, 18 March, recalls the story of Denis Avey, which is told more fully in Avey's and Rob Broomby's The Man Who Broke Into Auschwitz.

Finally, news of the Organization of American Historians' book awards creeps slowly out of Houston. The Merle Curti Award for the best book published in American social or American intellectual history goes to Cornell's Jefferson Cowie for Stayin' Alive: The 1970s and the Last Days of the Working Class. Facebook rumors hold that the Frederick Jackson Turner Award for an author's first book in American history goes to Wayne State's Danielle McGuire for At the Dark End of the Street: Black Women, Rape, and Resistance--A New History of the Civil Rights Movement from Rosa Parks to the Rise of Black Power.