Carnivalesque XLIII, an ancient/medieval edition of the festival, is up at Archaeoporn! History Carnival LXXIX goes up on Wednesday 1 October at American Presidents Blog. Send nominations of the best in history blogging since 1 September to coppertop67*at*hotmail*dot*com or use the form.

Adam Gopnik,"Right again: The Passions of John Stuart Mill," New Yorker, 6 October, reviews Richard Reeves's John Stuart Mill: Victorian Firebrand.

At Religion in American History, Paul Harvey says Thomas Sugrue's Sweet Land of Liberty: The Forgotten Struggle for Civil Rights in the North may be"the most important work of American history published this year." We'll hear more about it in November.

Janet Maslin,"The Richest Man and How He Grew (and Grew His Company, Too)," NYT, 28 September, reviews Alice Schroeder's The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life.

Jane Mayer, the author of The Dark Side: The Inside Story Of How The War On Terror Turned Into A War On American Ideals, joins Christopher Hitchens, Spencer Ackerman, and others at Talking Points Café to discuss her book.

Simon Jenkins reviews Simon Schama's The American Future: A History for the TLS, 28 September.