More 20th Century Notes

Dan Kaufman,"La Despedida: A Lost Memoir of the Spanish Civil War," Nation, 12 August, reviews James Neugass, Peter N. Carroll and Peter Glazer, eds., War Is Beautiful: An American Ambulance Driver in the Spanish Civil War.

Ken Johnson,"A Chronicle of New York's Darks and Lights, Captured by Savvy Street Photographers," NYT, 13 August, reviews"New York Photographs," exhibits by thirteen New York City galleries.

Benjamin Wallace-Wells,"Worst and Dimmest," TNR, 12 August, argues that we learned the wrong lessons from David Halberstam.