Apr 26, 2011

Things Noted Here & There

by Cliopatria

Carnivalesque LXXIII, an ancient/medieval edition of the festival, is up at Jost A Mon.

Philip Bethge, "'Culinary History Has To Be Analyzed Like Art History'," Der Spiegel, 21 April, part 1/part 2, interviews Nathan Myhrvold, the author of Modernist Cuisine.

David Sehat, "Five myths about church and state in America," Washington Post, 22 April, is by the author of The Myth of American Religious Freedom.

Rachel Polonsky, "A Sentimental Education," Literary Review, April, "Patron saints of literary gloom," Economist, 20 April, and Luke Kennard, "A defense of academia as a creative force," The National, 22 April, review Elif Batuman's The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them. Elif Batuman, "Life after a Bestseller," Guardian, 21 April, thinks about no longer being an outsider.

Kwame Anthony Appiah, "The Apple Fell Far from the Tree," NYRB, 12 May, reviews Peter Firstbrook's The Obamas: The Untold Story of an African Family. Mary Elizabeth Williams, "Barack Obama's mother: The girl who ran away," Salon, 21 April, reviews Janny Scott's Singular Woman: The Untold Story of Barack Obama's Mother.

Sean Wilentz, "The Real Dylan in China," New Yorker, 10 April, Jon Wiener, "Bob Dylan in Beijing: No Sellout," Nation, 10 April, and Jeremiah Jenne, "Dylan in Beijing: final thoughts and a bit of a rant," Jottings from the Granite Studio, 10 April, reply to Maureen Dowd, "Blowin' in the Idiot Wind, NYT, 9 April.

Maura Elizabeth Cunningham and Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom, "Interpreting Protest in Modern China," Dissent, Winter, is updated by Cunningham's "Protest and Repression in China: An Update to ‘Interpreting Protest in Modern China'," Dissent, 11 April.

Finally, farewell to Miami University of Ohio's Phillip R. Shriver.