Sunday Notes
XXXIX, an ancient/medieval edition of the festival, at A Corner of Tenth-Century Europe on Sunday 18 May. Send nominations of the best in ancient and medieval history blogging since 17 March to him at jaj20*at*cam*dot*ac*dot*uk or use the form.Spotted among Acknowledgments in Daniel Walker Howe's "What Hath God Wrought?": thanks to the usual suspects who read manuscripts and offer critical advice: Joyce Appleby, David Kennedy, James McPherson, Kathryn Kish Sklar, etc. Then, there's evidence that the manuscript was long in its creation: thanks to C. Vann Woodward. Finally, there's the outlier: thanks to John Yoo! What's up with that? Says one of our colleagues:"It's like Ashton Kutcher showed up at, I don't know, the Royal Shakespeare Company. And took the stage like he belonged there."
Carolyn Thomas de la Peña,"The Origins of Cybex Space," Cabinet, Spring, has us in suits, ties, and bone corsets for a workout in the late 19th century gym. The woman on the 1908 mechanical horse has begun to get a clue.
Anne Applebaum,"The Blog of War," TNR, 28 May, leaves neither skin nor flesh on the bones of Nicholson Baker's Human Smoke: The Beginnings of World War II, the End of Civilization. Thanks to Manan Ahmed for the tip.
Jonathan Jones,"Dazzling demons," Guardian, 7 May, reviews"Klimt," an exhibit of the surviving work of Gustav Klimt (1862-1918) at the Tate, Liverpool.
George F. Will,"Bring Us Apart," NYT, 10 May, and Bruce J. Schulman,"Nixon: the one," Boston Globe, 11 May, review Rick Perlstein's Nixonland: : The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America. Hat tip.
Michael E. Ruane,"Unhappy With 'Confrontational' Image, U.S. Panel Wants King Statue Reworked," Washington Post, 9 May, and Blake Gopnik,"Statue Whittles Away at King's Legacy," Washington Post, 10 May, take hard looks at Lei Yixin's proposed statue for the King Memorial in Washington, DC.