Culture and Stuff hosts History Carnival CI on Monday 1 August. Use the form or the form to nominate the best in July's history blogging. The Earthly Paradise hosts August's Art History Carnival on Wednesday 3 August. Use the form to nominate the best in July's Art History blogging.

William Pannapacker, "Overeducated, Underemployed," Slate, 27 July, has six suggestions for "how to fix humanities grad school."

Peter Phillips, "The Invention of Our Music," The Book, 28 July, reviews Christopher Page's The Christian West and Its Singers: The First Thousand Years.

Amanda Vickery, "18th-century Paris: the capital of luxury," Guardian, 29 July, reviews "Paris: Life and Luxury in the Eighteenth Century," an exhibit at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles; and Charissa Bremer-David's Paris: Life & Luxury in the Eighteenth Century.

"Dissenter," Long Story Short, 28 July, is the first installment of Tablet's new podcast. In it, Vivian Gornick joins podcast host, Liel Leibovitz, to discuss the continuing appeal of Rosa Luxemburg.

Hester Vaizey reviews Mary Fulbrook's Dissonant Lives: Generations and Violence through the German Dictatorships for the THE, 28 July.

Ian Thompson reviews Stephen Gundle's Death and the Dolce Vita: The Dark Side of Rome in the 1950s for the Guardian, 22 July.

Janet Maslin, "The Catching of Two Joseph Hellers," NYT, 27 July, reviews Tracy Daugherty's Just One Catch: A Biography of Joseph Heller and Erica Heller's Yossarian Slept Here: When Joseph Heller Was Dad, the Apthorp Was Home, and Life Was a Catch-22.

Matthew Taylor reviews Matthew J Goodwin's New British Fascism: Rise of the British National Party for the Guardian, 27 July.