Things Noted Here & There

Michael S. Roth for the LA Times, 10 January, and Gideon Lewis-Kraus,"The Opening of the Academic Mind," Slate, 17 January, review Louis Menand's The Marketplace of Ideas: Reform and Resistance in the American University. Hat tip.

Rafael Behr,"Shlomo Sand: an enemy of the Jewish people?" Guardian, 17 January, interviews the author of The Invention of the Jewish People.

Michael Kenney,"These American lives in occupied Paris," Boston Globe, 13 January, reviews Charles Glass's Americans in Paris: Life and Death Under Nazi Occupation.

Kevin O'Kelly,"García Márquez life misses the man," Boston Globe, 15 January, reviews Ilan Stavans's Gabriel García Márquez: The Early Years.