Ancient Things: Jonathon Keats,"Romancing the Stone," Washington Post, 22 July, reviews John Ray's The Rosetta Stone and the Rebirth of Ancient Egypt. James Davidson,"Zeus Be Nice Now," LRB, 19 July, reviews Thesaurus Cultus et Rituum Antiquorum and Robert Parker's Polytheism and Society in Athens.
Carnivalesque XXIX, an ancient/medieval edition, is up at Gill Polack's Even in a little thing.

Cold War Things: Tim Weiner's Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA is reviewed in Evan Thomas,"Counter Intelligence," NYT, 22 July, and David Wise,"Covert Action," Washington Post, 22 July. David E. Kaiser reviews Robert Dallek's Nixon and Kissinger, Cliopatria, 21 July. Anne Applebaum,"What Goes Up ...," Washington Post, 22 July, reviews Frederick Taylor's The Berlin Wall: A World Divided, 1961-1989. Robert G. Kaiser,"Agent Provocateur," Washington Post, 22 July, reviews Larry Berman's Perfect Spy: The Incredible Double Life of Pham Xuan An, Time Magazine Reporter and Vietnamese Communist Agent.

Contemporary Things: Tim Burke and Alan Jacobs are live-blogging Harry Potter.
Congratulations to Richard Bailey, who blogs at Etcetera Whatever. Richard will become a Postdoctoral Scholar and Visiting Assistant Professor in the Honors Program at the University of Kentucky and has just received a contract from Oxford University Press for the publication of his manuscript in its Religion in America Series.
Farewell to Tammy Faye Baker, the Wittenberg Door's Theologian of the Year for 1980. She taught us to spell G_d with an"au" and to ask:"What is woman without mascara and false eyelashes?"

Ralph E. Luker - 7/22/2007

Thanks for the correction.

Another Damned Medievalist - 7/22/2007

Hi Ralph --

Gill's Carnivalesque is A/M. Sorry not to have been more on top of things ... research trip kind of got in the way.