More Modern Notes

Eric Ormsby,"A Literary Revolution," WSJ, 25 September, reviews Gabriel Josipovici's What Ever Happened to Modernism?Hat tip.

Deborah Lipstadt,"Even a 'remake' of Jud Süss can never be neutral," Guardian, 5 October, comments on the remake of the Nazi propaganda film.

Jonathan Fenby,"Eastern Promises," Literary Review, October, reviews Patrick Wright's Passport to Peking: A Very British Mission to Mao's China.

William Boyd,"V. S. Naipaul, a misanthrope abroad," TLS, 6 October, reviews Naipaul's The Masque of Africa: Glimpses of African belief.

Philip M. Taylor,"Mind Games: A brief history of information warfare," Tablet, 7 October, tracks the information wars since the end of the Cold War.