Thursday's Notes

Edward J. Blum,"Academic Blogging: Some Reservations and Lessons," Religion in American History, 26 September, [academically] blogs his qualms about academic blogging.

Barbara Graziosi reviews Alastair J. L. Blanshard's Sex: Vice and Love from Antiquity to Modernity for the THE, 30 September.

Christopher Benfey,"Welcome to Xanadu!" Slate, 29 September, is a slide show from"The World of Khubilai Khan: Chinese Art in the Yuan Dynasty," an exhibit at Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Jim Al-Khalili,"When Baghdad was centre of the scientific world," Guardian, 26 September, is a foretaste of Al-Khalili's Pathfinders: The Golden Age of Arabic Science.

Francis Wheen reviews Dominic Sandbrook's State of Emergency: The Way We Were: Britain, 1970-1974 for the Guardian, 26 September.

John Sutherland for the Financial Times, 9 August, James Grant for the Independent, 22 August, and Rupert Wright,"Simon Schama, hacked down to size," The National, 24 September, review Schama's Scribble, Scribble, Scribble: Writings on Ice Cream, Obama, Churchill and My Mother.

Emily Bazelon,"Tragedy at the Virginia Quarterly Review," Slate, 27 September, takes a new look at the tragedy in Charlottesville.