Friday's Notes
Carol Vogel,"An Old Master Emerges From Grime," NYT, 9 September, reports that a cleaning helps confirm Metropolitan Museum experts' opinion that its painting is by Velazquez.
Alex Beam,"Making history. Or not.," Boston Globe, 8 September, reviews Greil Marcus and Werner Sollers, eds., A New Literary History of America.
Richard Davenport-Hines,"Les rosbifs abroad," TLS, 9 September, reviews Richard Mullen's and James Munson's The Smell of the Continent: The British discover Europe.
Richard Fortey,"All Things Considered," Literary Review, September, reviews Frances Larson's An Infinity of Things: How Sir Henry Wellcome Collected the World.
Benjamin Schwartz,"Life In (and After) Our Great Recession," Atlantic, October, draws on studies of the Great Depression to suggest implications for our own futures.
Sanford Schwartz,"Mysteries of Ensor," NYRB, 24 September, reviews Catherine de Zegher, ed., Between Street and Mirror: The Drawings of James Ensor and"James Ensor," an exhibit at Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art, New York, 28 June – 21 September 2009 and at the Musée d'Orsay, Paris, 20 October 2009 – 4 February 2010.
Michael Binyon,"Thatcher told Gorbachev Britain did not want German reunification," London Times, 11 September, two months before the fall of the Berlin Wall. Excerpts from the Soviet Union's transcripts of the conversations.