Sep 21, 2010

More Noted Things

by Cliopatria

Carnivalesque LVI, an early modern edition of the festival, goes up at Sharon Howard's Early Modern Notes on Saturday 25 September. NB:

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Felipe Fernández-Armesto reviews Elisabeth Hardouin-Fugier's Bullfighting: A Troubled History for the THE, 16 September.

Kenneth C. Davis,"America's True History of Religious Tolerance," Smithsonian, October, finds more exceptions than a rule.

"Alfred Stieglitz New York" is the title of a new book of photographs and an exhibit at the Seaport Museum New York. Bonnie Yochelson at Huffington Post has a slide show of the photographs.

James Marcus,"The Chroniclers," The Book, 20 September, reviews Robert Fox, ed., We Were There: An Eyewitness History of the Twentieth Century.

Larry Rohter,"Held Captive, yet Clinging to Hope," NYT, 20 September, reviews Ingrid Betancourt's Even Silence Has An End: My Six Years of Captivity in the Colombian Jungle and Victoria Bruce's, Karin Hayes's and Jorge Enrique Botero's Hostage Nation: Colombia's Guerrilla Army and the Failed War on Drugs.

Finally, farewell to Fathi Osman, a distinguished scholar of Islam.