Jun 23, 2011

More Noted Things

by Cliopatria

Jeremy Axelrod, "A Book About Boredom Is Anything But," Daily Beast, 20 June, reviews Peter Toohey's Boredom: A Lively History.

Jed Perl for TNR, 22 June, reviews "Paris: Life & Luxury in the Eighteenth Century," an exhibit at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles.

Steven Shapin, "Gutted," LRB, 30 June, reviews Ian Miller's A Modern History of the Stomach: Gastric Illness, Medicine and British Society, 1800-1950.

John David Smith, "Civil War History: an Intervention," CHE, 19 June, reviews Gary Gallagher's The Union War. Drew Gilpin Faust, "Telling War Stories," TNR, 30 June, is by one of the American Civil War's best story tellers.

Charles McGrath, "Victorian Goddesses, a Real Wife and a Sour Marriage," NYT, 21 June, reviews Suzanne Fagence Cooper's Effie: The Passionate Lives of Effie Gray, John Ruskin and John Everett Millais.

Richard Davenport-Hines reviews Gordon Bowker's James Joyce for the Telegraph, 20 June.

Ed Vulliamy reviews Wendy Lesser's Music for Silenced Voices: Shostakovich and His Fifteen Quartets for the Guardian, 22 June.

Leon Aron, "Everything You Think You Know About the Collapse of the Soviet Union Is Wrong," Foreign Policy, July/August, challenges the common wisdom.