Here are a few interesting articles and pieces we found around the web this week. If you come across something that other intellectual historians might enjoy, please let us know in the comments section.
Mike

Markus M. Haefliger, 500 Jahre Reformation. Der englische Sonderweg (NZZ)
Kay Ehling, Biografische Notizen zu Karl Löwith (Merkur)
Henning Ritter, Verehrte Denker. Porträts nach Begegnungen (portraits of Carl Schmitt, Jacob Taubes, Klaus Heinrich, Isaiah Berlin, Hans Blumenberg)
Sibylle Lewitscharoff, Blumenberg (novel)
Franco Moretti, Distant reading (collection of essays)
Cynthia
The following group of pieces, all from The Brooklyn Rail, circle around the question of history painting’s place in our time:
Donald Kuspit introduces the subject with “The New Figurative and History Painting” (Brooklyn Rail)
Brian Winkenweder, “The Day’s Outrage: Fearless Girl and Open Casket” (Brooklyn Rail)
Mark van Proyen, “Response to James Cooper” (Brooklyn Rail)
Robert R. Shane, “Temporal Nomads: The Scandal of Postmodern History Painting” (Brooklyn Rail)
Jacob Collins, “The Issue of History Painting” (Brooklyn Rail)
Adam Miller, “Contemporary History Painting” (Brooklyn Rail)
Robert Zeller, “History Painting and the Problem with Art Education” (Brooklyn Rail)
Matthew Lippmann, “Romeo and Juliet of Hell’s Kitchen: On Tina Cane’s Once More With Feeling” (BLARB)
(The heat is ON in New York, and Tina Cane’s poetry seems like the thing to read on a muggy summer night.)
Disha:
Vinod Kumar Shukla, “Old Veranda” (n+1)
Tracy K. Smith, “My God, It’s Full Of Stars” (The Poetry Foundation)
From Life on Mars (Graywolf Press, 2011)
Rebecca Christopher, “The 1830s Are Back Like a Statement Sleeve” (The Hairpin)
Stefan Collini, “E.P.Thompson’s Search for a New Popular Front” (The Nation)
Derek:
Sheryll Cashin, “One Fifty Years of Loving, That Most Radical of Act” (Literary Hub) and Loving (2016, written and directed by Jeff Nichols)
Joshua Zeitz, “The Greatest Hearings in American History “ (Politico)
Elizabeth Economy, “History with Chinese Characteristics” (Foreign Affairs)
Spence:
Bridget Read, “The Powerful Reticence of Elizabeth Bishop” (The New Republic)
Emily Midorikawa and Emma Claire Sweeney, “Harriet Beecher Stowe and George Eliot’s long-distance relationship” (TLS)
Joseph Fronczak, “Hobsbawm’s Long Century” (Jacobin)
Stefan Collini, “Politics by Candlelight” (The Nation)
Erin:
From the Leonard Lopate Show on WNYC, a conversation with the curators of “A World of Emotions: Ancient Greece 700 BC – 200 AD,” now on view at the Onassis Cultural Center in New York. (entrance is free!)
James Wood, “Cramming for Success” (LRB)
Joshua Clover, “Who Can Save the University?” (Public Books)
Susan Chira, “The Universal Phenomenon of Men Interrupting Women” (NYT)
Eric:
Lynn Clement, “The Commune’s Marianne: An Art History of la pétroleusse” (Age of Revolutions)
Patrick Iber, “The Spy Who Funded Me” (LARB).
Laura Sangha, “What should prospective history students read over the summer?” (many-headed monster).
“Is America descending into political violence again?” (Vox)
Yitzchak:
David Shulman, “Israel’s Irrational irrationality” (NYRB)
Martin Fuller, “Louis Kahn’s Mystic Monumentality” (NYRB)
Mariana Alessandri, “In Praise of Lost Causes” (New York Times)
Jelani Cobb, “Bill Maher, Mitch Landrieu, and Echoes of the Civil War” (The New Yorker)
Sarah:
Rowan Cahill, “A forgotten address,” (overland)
Hattie Foreman, “My Work With The Sheffield Feminist Archive: The Importance Of Recording Feminist Oral Histories,” (History Matters)
Gerald Horne, “Revolution and Counter-Revolution: Toward a New Interpretive Framework,” (AAIHS)
Dominic Vitiello and Thomas Sugrue, “Immigration and Metropolitan Revitalization in the United States,” (Global Urban History)
Sadiah Qureshi, “We prefer their company,” (LRB)