20th Century Notes

Stephen M. Walt,"Lessons from the Weimar Republic," Foreign Policy, 23 August, recalls Gordon Craig's interpretation of a liberal intellectual's responsibilities.

Adam Kirsch,"Hareloom," Tablet, 24 August, reviews Edmund de Waal's The Hare With Amber Eyes, a recollection of one of pre-World War II's leading German Jewish families.

Anne Helen Petersen,"‘Tells the Facts and Names the Names'," Celebrity Gossip, Academic Style, 22 August, is an illustrated and endnoted chapter from her dissertation on the scandal mag Confidential in the late 1950s.

Sean Wilentz,"New Dylan Recordings Unveiled," Daily Beast, 24 August, announces Columbia Records release of two new collections of Bob Dylan recordings and anticipates the publication of Wilentz's Bob Dylan in America.

Matilda Battersby,"Hendrix in Britain and Handel's house," Independent, 18 August, reviews"Hendrix in Britain," an exhibit at Mayfair's Handel House Museum."Jimi Hendrix memories inhabit Handel House," Guardian, 24 August, is a gallery of photographs.