Midweek Notes
Laura Cumming for the Guardian, 1 August, and Richard Hamblyn,"The life of the volcano," TLS, 29 September, reviews"Volcano: Turner to Warhol," an exhibit at Compton Verney in Warwickshire, and Alwyn Scarth's Vesuvius: A Biography.
Jennifer Howard,"Jane Austen's Well-Known Style Owed Much to Her Editor, Scholar Argues," CHE, 22 October, features the work of Kathryn Sutherland, editor of the digital Austen. After 9:00 et, you can hear Sutherland interviewed on NPR's"Morning Edition".
Roger Boylan,"Suppose You're an Idiot," Boston Review, Nov/ Dec, reviews Harriet E. Smith, et al., eds., The Autobiography of Mark Twain: I.
Jed Perl,"Classic Catastrophe," TNR, 27 October, reviews"Chaos and Classicism," an exhibit of 20th century European art between the wars at the Guggenheim Museum in Manhattan.
Adam Kirsch,"Homecomings," Tablet, 26 October, reviews"16 mm Postcards: Home Movies of American Jewish Visitors to 1930s Poland," an exhibit at Manhattan's Yeshiva University Museum, and Ruth Wisse, ed., The Glatstein Chronicles, two novellas by Jacob Glatstein.
Peter Duffy,"The Monster," The Book, 27 October, reviews Frank Dikötter's Mao's Great Famine: The History of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958-1962.
Jeremy Noel-Tod,"Dictionary of slang: 'Everything went off A1, he said'," Telegraph, 25 October, reviews Jonathan Green's Green's Dictionary of Slang, B. E. Gent's The First English Dictionary of Slang, 1699, and Das Krapital: Roger's Profanisaurus.