ELSEWHERE: Figured I’d tell you all about a couple of new/relaunched blogs. First, you may already have noticed The Groom’s Family on the blogroll. This is a blog dedicated to exploring the relationship between Judaism and Christianity, from the perspective of a Jewish convert to Orthodox Christianity. Hey TGF, this is your reminder that you promised to lend me Doubly Chosen: Jewish Identity, the Soviet Intelligentsia, and the Russian Orthodox Church, by Judith Kornblatt, when you finished it! Gimme.

And I’m very glad to report that Alias Clio has started up again! The author, “Musette,” is an artsy, fashion-conscious, romantic Catholic lady of French-Canadian extraction; the blog will focus on reviews of books related in some way to history. She opens with a review of the recent Henry VIII novel Wolf Hall.