Things Current: History Carnival LVIII is up at Martin Rundkvist's Aardvarcheology! Gary Smailes will host tomorrow's Military History Carnival. Send nominations of the best in military history blogging since 14 October to garysmailes*at*gmail* dot*com or use the form.

Tim Burke,"Beyond Hackery," Easily Distracted, 2 November, looks at the controversy over residence hall programs at the University of Delaware.

Meghan Gilbert,"College blogs build campus conversations," Toledo Blade, 4 November, is a thoughtful roundup of ways in which blogs are being constructively used in academic communities. Hat tip.

Things Ancient & Modern: Mary Beard reviews Alberto Manguel's Homer's The Illiad and The Odyssey: A Biography for the London Times, 4 November.

"Origins of the ANCL and US Piracy of it," Thoughts on Antiquity, 2 November, tracks American Christian publishers' piracy of the British publisher T. & T. Clark's multi-volume editions of the Ante-Nicene, Nicene, and Post-Nicene Church Fathers. Hat tip.

In"Bateman on Hanson, Round 2: Poitiers, 732 A.D., and beyond," Altercation, 5 November, LTC Robert Bateman continues his assault on Victor Davis Hanson's Carnage and Culture. Hanson replies in"Squaring Off, Part II, Private Papers, 5 November.

Alan Jacobs,"On the Recent Publication of Kahlil Gibran's Collected Works," First Things, November, puts in verse his distaste for the"expansive and yet vacuous" works of Kahlil Gibran.

Michiko Kakutani,"More on the Career of the Genius Who Compared Himself to God," NYT, 6 November, reviews John Richardson's A Life of Picasso: The Triumphant Years, 1917-1932, the third volume in Richardson's multi-volume biography.

Richard Raynor reviews Judith Freeman's The Long Embrace, about"Raymond Chandler and his obsession with another man's wife," for the LA Times, 4 November. Hat tip.

Janet Maslin,"Brokaw Explores Another Turning Point, the ‘60's," NYT, 5 November, reviews Tom Brokaw's Boom! Voices of the Sixties: Personal Reflections on the '60s and Today.