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Apr 26, 2011

Things Noted Here & There


by Cliopatria


  • Carnivalesque LXXIII, an ancient/medieval edition of the festival, is up at Jost A Mon.
  • Philip Bethge, "'Culinary History Has To Be Analyzed Like Art History'," Der Spiegel, 21 April, part 1/part 2, interviews Nathan Myhrvold, the author of Modernist Cuisine.
  • David Sehat, "Five myths about church and state in America," Washington Post, 22 April, is by the author of The Myth of American Religious Freedom.
  • Rachel Polonsky, "A Sentimental Education," Literary Review, April, "Patron saints of literary gloom," Economist, 20 April, and Luke Kennard, "A defense of academia as a creative force," The National, 22 April, review Elif Batuman's The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them. Elif Batuman, "Life after a Bestseller," Guardian, 21 April, thinks about no longer being an outsider.
  • Kwame Anthony Appiah, "The Apple Fell Far from the Tree," NYRB, 12 May, reviews Peter Firstbrook's The Obamas: The Untold Story of an African Family. Mary Elizabeth Williams, "Barack Obama's mother: The girl who ran away," Salon, 21 April, reviews Janny Scott's Singular Woman: The Untold Story of Barack Obama's Mother.
  • Sean Wilentz, "The Real Dylan in China," New Yorker, 10 April, Jon Wiener, "Bob Dylan in Beijing: No Sellout," Nation, 10 April, and Jeremiah Jenne, "Dylan in Beijing: final thoughts and a bit of a rant," Jottings from the Granite Studio, 10 April, reply to Maureen Dowd, "Blowin' in the Idiot Wind, NYT, 9 April.
  • Maura Elizabeth Cunningham and Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom, "Interpreting Protest in Modern China," Dissent, Winter, is updated by Cunningham's "Protest and Repression in China: An Update to ‘Interpreting Protest in Modern China'," Dissent, 11 April.
  • Finally, farewell to Miami University of Ohio's Phillip R. Shriver.

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