Weak Endnotes

Kara Jesella,"Blogging's Glass Ceiling," NYT, 27 July, covers the BlogHer conference held last weekend in San Francisco.

Jonathan Yardley reviews Iain Gately's Drink: A Cultural History of Alcohol for the Washington Post, 27 July.

Kevin Rushby,"A River Trickles Through It," Guardian, 26 July, reviews Alice Albinia's Empires of the Indus: The Story of a River.

Miranda Seymour,"Patrons and pies at the Cat and Fiddle," Guardian, 26 July, reviews Ophelia Field's The Kit-Kat Club: Friends Who Imagined a Nation.

Simon Callow,"Children of a lesser god," Guardian, 26 July, reviews Owen Matthews's Stalin's Children, a family memoir.