Friday's Notes

Rachel Cusk,"The Art of Self-Portraiture," The Guardian, 19 July, reviews Laura Cumming's A Face to the World: On Self-Portraits.

Peter Marshall,"Not a real queen?" TLS, 22 July, reviews Eamon Duffy's Fires of Faith: Catholic England under Mary Tudor, Linda Porter's Mary Tudor: The First Queen, Judith M. Richards's Mary Tudor, and Anna Whitelock's Mary Tudor.

Janet Maslin,"Mother Nature's Son, With a Big Stick (and Rifle)," NYT, 22 July, reviews Douglas Brinkley's The Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for America.

Joseph Lennon,"The hunger artist," TLS, 22 July, marks the centennial of suffragette Marion Wallace-Dunlop's first modern hunger strike.