Modern History Notes

History Carnival XCIII,"People, Places and Points in Time," is up at Jaipreet Virdi's From the Hands of Quacks.

Matthew Reynolds,"Edwardians on display," TLS, 30 November, reviews Morna O'Neill and Michael Hart, eds., The Edwardian Sense: Art design and performance in Britain, 1901–1910 and Richard Ormond's and Elaine Kilmurray's John Singer Sargeant: Volume Five: Figures and Landscapes, 1883–1899.

Michael Dirda,"H. L. Mencken at full throttle," TLS, 29 November, reviews H. L. Mencken's Prejudices, ed. by Marion Rogers.

Philip Kennicott,"The Fool of Chance," The Book, 2 December, reviews Kenneth Silverman's Begin Again: A Biography of John Cage.

Patricia Duncker,"Romain a clef," Literary Review, December, reviews David Bellos's Romain Gary: A Tall Story.

Simon Sebag Montefiore,"Hell Frozen Over," Literary Review, December, reviews Fyodor Vasilevich Mochulsky's Gulag Boss: A Soviet Memoir, Deborah Kaple, ed. and trans.

Diana Athill,"Ars Memoria," Literary Review, December, reviews Tony Judt's The Memory Chalet,"... simultaneously awe-inspiring and almost too painful to bear."