20th Century Notes
Alan Allport,"no peace on the home front," London's Times, 17 October, says there's a history of troubled return of British troops from the battlefield. Alan, our former colleague at Cliopatria, would know about that. Yale University Press publishes his Demobbed: Coming Home After the Second World War this month and he blogs about it here.
D. G. Myers,"The Never-Ending Journey," Commentary, October, reviews Edward Alexander's Lionel Trilling and Irving Howe: And Other Stories of Literary Friendship and Michael Kimmage's The Conservative Turn: Lionel Trilling, Whittaker Chambers, and the Lessons of Anti-Communism.
August Kleinzahler,"Monk's Moods," NYT, 15 October, reviews Robin D. G. Kelley's Theolonius Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original.
Hans-Ulrich Stoldt and Klaus Wiegrefe,"East German Jokes Collected by West German Spies," Der Spiegel, 14 October, asks"What would happen if the desert became communist?""Nothing for a while," comes the reply,"and then there would be a sand shortage."