Things Noted Here and There

Jonathan Beck,"Junior Staff Lecturers want equal rights," Jerusalem Post, 21 January. After senior lecturers at Israeli universities returned to classes from a three months' strike yesterday, adjunct junior lecturers complain that they've been left out of agreements and have very disadvantageous working conditions. Thanks to Brian Ulrich for the tip.

Eliot Weinberger,"Praise Yah," LRB, 24 January, reviews Robert Alter, trans., The Book of Psalms: A Translation with Commentary.

Richard A. Fortey,"The Age of the Earth," TLS, 9 January, reviews Pascal Richet's A Natural History of Time.

Adam Gopnik,"In the Mourning Store," New Yorker, 21 January, reviews Drew Gilpin Faust's This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War and Mark S. Schantz's Awaiting the Heavenly Country: The Civil War and America's Culture of Death.

Scott McLemee,"Hillary-ious," IHE, 16 January, looks at Erika Falk's Women for President: Media Bias in Eight Campaigns.

Daniel Mendelsohn,"His Design for Living," NYRB, 17 January, reviews Barry Day, ed., The Letters of Noël Coward.