Things Old and New
Nora Krug,"History and Chutzpah," Washington Post, 12 October, reviews E. H. Gombrich's A Little History of the World.
Germaine Greer,"Crucibles," NYT, 10 October, reviews John Demos's The Enemy Within: 2,000 Years of Witch-Hunting in the Western World.
Electronic Enlightenment, a University of Oxford project, is hosted by the Bodleian Library and distributed by Oxford University Press. It currently offers 53,000 letters by 6,000 European intellectuals in the long 18th century and will be periodically updated with new additions. You can explore Electronic Enlightenment with the username, presspass, and the password, autumn08.
Richard Hell,"I Is Another," NYT, 12 October, reviews Edmund White's Rimbaud: The Double Life of a Rebel.
Jesse McKinley,"Promoting Offbeat History Between the Drinks," NYT, 13 October, introduces The Order of E Clampus Vitus.
George Johnson reviews Hans C. Ohanian's Einstein's Mistakes: The Human Failings of Genius for the LA Times, 12 October.
Andrew Nagorski,"Axis of Incompetence," Washington Post, 12 October, Hitler's Empire: How the Nazis Ruled Europe.
The New York Times' archive of its own articles and related sources in the internet about Martin Luther King, Jr., is now available here.
Jacob Heilbrunn,"The Shadow President," NYT, 12 October, reviews Barton Gellman's Angler: The Cheney Vice Presidency.
Scott Shane,"Decades on the Trail of a Shadowy Agency," NYT, 10 October, and Bob Kerry,"Big Brother's Big Failure," Washington Post, 12 October, review James Bamford's The Shadow Factory: The Ultra-Secret NSA From 9/11 to the Eavesdropping on America.
Tyler Cowen's"Paul Krugman Wins the Nobel Prize," Marginal Revolution, 13 October, is a link-rich post on the merits.
Christopher Buckley,"Sorry, Dad, I'm Voting for Obama," Blogs & Stories, 14 October, and Christopher Hitchens,"Vote for Obama," Slate, 13 October, are endorsements.