20th Century Notes

Christopher Shea,"Sean Wilentz, Bringing It All Back Home," CHE, 5 September, profiles the Princeton historian. Bruce Handy,"Bringing It All Back Home," NYT, 3 September, and Michael S. Roth for the Washington Post, 5 September, review his new book, Bob Dylan in America. Sean Wilentz,"The Darker Meanings in a Bob Dylan Piece," Daily Beast, 5 September, is an excerpt from it.

In Elizabeth D. Samet,"Edith Wharton's War," TNR, 6 September, a West Point English professor interprets the novelist's romantic view of World War I.

David Oshinsky,"Freedom Trains," NYT, 2 September, reviews Isabel Wilkerson's The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration.

Jonathan Yardley reviews John Julius Norwich's Trying to Please: A Memoir for the Washington Post, 5 September.

Jonathan Fenby reviews Frank Dikötter's Mao's Great Famine: The History of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958-1962 for the Guardian, 5 September.

Neil Spencer,"Miles Davis: The muse who changed him, and the heady Brew that rewrote jazz," Guardian, 5 September, examines the influence of a young woman who transfigured Miles Davis's music.

David Frum,"Unhappy Days," NYT, 3 September, reviews Laura Kalman's Right Star Rising: A New Politics, 1974-1980. At Legal History, 5 September, Mary Dudziak hands Frum his hat.

Norman Birnbaum,"Norman Podhoretz in Black and White," truthdig, 20 August, reviews Thomas L. Jeffers's Norman Podhoretz: A Biography.