Notes East & West
Katherine Wharton,"Buddhists at War," TLS, 29 September, reviews Michael K. Jerryson and Mark Juergensmeyer, eds., Buddhist Warfare and Dale S. Wright's The Six Perfections: Buddhism and the cultivation of character.
Holland Cotter,"The Spirit of Xanadu, Morphing Across Borders," NYT, 30 September, reviews"The World of Khubilai Khan: Chinese Art in the Yuan Dynasty," an exhibit at Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art. Christopher Benfey,"Welcome to Xanadu!" Slate, 29 September, is a slide show from the exhibit.
Ellen Handler Spitz,"The Storytellers," The Book, 30 September, reviews Maria Tatar, ed. and trans., The Grimm Reader: The Classic Tales of the Brothers Grimm.
Meredith Hindley reviews Louise W. Knight's Jane Addams: Spirit in Action for the Barnes & Noble Review, 23 September.
Jed Perl,"Ab Ex Nixed," TNR, 29 September, reviews"Abstract Expressionist New York," an exhibit at Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art. It's"three-quarters brain dead," says Perl.
Finally, in the course of her study of the Tuskegee Experiment, Wellesley historian Susan Reverby found evidence that, between 1946 and 1948, without their knowledge or permission, United States government medical researchers intentionally infected hundreds of Guatemalans, including mental patients, with gonorrhea and syphilis. Today, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius officially apologize for the action of the U. S. Public Health Service over sixty years ago. Here is their statement.