How did we arrive at them? See below.

For the week May 13 to May 20.

Getting Up-Close and Personal with the Black Death - Tim Gebhart

Gebhart's review gives us a solid feel for the book, and reveals that reading it led him to contemplate both death and life. With judicious quotes from the book, and an admirable brevity, he tells us why we also might wish to read John Kelly's The Great Mortality.

BOOKS: Pat Cummings' pick of the week.

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Living in Deadwood - dietdoc

Talk to Her - Mat Brewster

VIDEO: Eric Berlin's picks of the week

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Revisionism in School Textbooks - Mark Kleiman

Mark Kleiman explores historical revisionism in US history textbooks, pointing out regional and nationalistic biases.

CULTURE: bhw's pick of the week

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An Open Letter to Tori Amos - Rohin (Being the first I stretched the date. This is from May 10.)

Just a nice approach to tap upside the head a musician much-loved by the author. Wedded bliss may not be great for good music.

I Was A Punk Before You Were A Punk Pt. 1 - HW Saxton (no Web site)

A great personal history narration of why punk was popular. And it starts with verve.

The Malaco Records Story, A Brief History ... - HW Saxton

Makes something I've never heard of compelling reading

MUSIC: Temple Stark's picks of the week

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How did we arrive at them? See below.

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Editors' Picks.

This is a new regular feature at Blogcritics.org to highlight what the eight current editors of the site view as some of the best posts of the week. It will be listed with the other BC regular features.

The editors are encouraged to look at their own section first, but also to pick out posts that they see elsewhere from Friday to Friday. In coming weeks it will be published Sunday afternoon. The idea for Editor's Picks is absolutely to be subjective based on only a few guiding principles.

Quality writing is the No. 1 factor, though the occasional juvenile, obnoxious but hilarious post will show up every now and then, too. The effort (not meaning length of post) is also a factor. Posts that entertain or give insight are also clearly factors in what makes a post worthy for remembering.