Saturday Notes

The Yale Center for British Art currently features three major exhibits: A New World: England's First View of America, Pearls to Pyramids: British Visual Culture and the Levant, 1600-1830, and The Lure of the East: British Orientalist Painting, 1830-1925. Thanks to Manan Ahmed for the tip.

Jonathan Yardley reviews Joshua Kendall's The Man Who Made Lists: Love, Death, Madness, and the Creation of Roget's Thesaurus for the Washington Post, 9 March.

Eric Ormsby,"Auden & America," NY Sun, 5 March, reviews Auden's Prose, Volume III: 1949–1955. Edward Mendelson, ed.

Jerry Z. Muller,"Us and Them: The Enduring Power of Ethnic Nationalism," Foreign Affairs, March/April, argues that ethnic nationalism" corresponds to some enduring propensities of the human spirit, ... is galvanized by modernization, and ... will drive global politics for generations to come. Once ethnic nationalism has captured the imagination of groups in a multiethnic society, ethnic disaggregation or partition is often the least bad answer." See also: our colleague, Daniel Larison's"Ethnonationalism and its Discontents (Part I)" and"Ethnonationalism and its Discontents (Part II)," Taki's Magazine, 4/5 March.

Mike Dorning and Christi Parsons,"Clinton's experience claim under scrutiny," Chicago Tribune, 7 March, investigates the candidate's claims to being an experienced hand in foreign policy.

Finally, the LA Times and the NY Times bid farewell to George Fredrickson; and the Guardian bids farewell to Stanley Trapido. Thanks to Derek Catsam and Mary Dudziak for the tips.