Jun 14, 2010

20th Century Notes

by Cliopatria

Peter Ackroyd reviews Wendy Moffat's E. M. Forster: A New Life for Times Online, 12 June.

Jonathan Kirshner,"Keynes, Recovered," Boston Review, May/June, reviews Peter Clarke's Keynes: The Rise, Fall, and Return of the 20th Century's Most Influential Economist, Paul Davidson's The Keynes Solution: The Path to Global Economic Prosperity and Robert Skidelsky's Keynes: The Return of the Master.

Dwight Garner,"The Meteoric Rise, and Decline, of a Talented Young Writer," NYT, 8 June, reviews Hilary Spurling's Pearl Buck in China: Journey to ‘The Good Earth'.

Timothy Snyder,"Jews, Poles & Nazis: The Terrible History," NYRB, 24 June, reviews Christopher Browning's Remembering Survival: Inside a Nazi Slave-Labor Camp and Barbara Engelking's and Dariusz Libionka's Z´ydzi w powstan´czej Warszawie [Jews in Insurrectionary Warsaw, 1944].