More Noted Things

Jonathan Gornall,"The real men of Harlech: the story of Rorke's Drift," The National, 22 October, reviews Ian Knight's Zulu Rising: The Epic Story of Isandlwana and Rorke's Drift.

Greg Beato,"The Original Mad Man," Reason, November, reviews Jeffrey L. Cruikshank's and Arthur W. Schultz's The Man Who Sold America: The Amazing (But True!) Story of Albert D. Lasker and the Creation of the Advertising Century.

Alexander J. Motyl,"Deleting the Holodomor: Ukraine Unmakes Itself," World Affairs, Sept/Oct:

The first thing Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovich did after his February 25 inauguration was delete the link to the Holodomor on the president's official Web site. Yanukovich's predecessor, Viktor Yushchenko, had made the Holodomor—the famine of 1932–33 produced by Joseph Stalin and responsible for the deaths of millions of Ukrainian peasants—into a national issue, promoting what Czech novelist Milan Kundera famously called"the struggle of memory over forgetting" as part of his attempt to move the country toward democracy.

Matthew Price reviews Jeremy Lewis's Shades of Greene: One Generation of an English Family for The National, 22 October.

Patricia Sullivan reviews Condoleezza Rice's Extraordinary, Ordinary People: A Memoir of Family for the Washington Post, 24 October.

Johann Hari,"The Valley of Taboos," Slate, 25 October, reviews V. S. Naipaul's The Masque of Africa: Glimpses of African Belief.