20th Century Notes

Edward Rothstein, "The Memory of Holocaust, Fortified," NYT, 22 April, reviews the two year-old Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center.

Jessa Crispin, "The War Crimes Beat," Smart Set, 19 April, and Allison Hoffman, "Draft of History," Tablet, 11 April, revisit Hannah Arendt's Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil. James Rosen, "History of Eichmann trial holds few new revelations," Washington Post, 22 April, reviews Deborah Lipstadt's The Eichmann Trial. See also: Stefan Reinecke and Christian Semler, "Mass murderers of conviction," soundandsight, 18 April, which interviews German holocaust historian, Ulrich Herbert.

Dawn Turner Trice, "Civil rights leader reflects on 50th anniversary of Freedom Rides," Chicago Tribune, 25 April, includes Diane Nash's memories on the 50th anniversary of the 1961 Freedom Rides. Other Freedom Riders in 1961 included two historians: UC Berkeley's Charles G. Sellers and Wesleyan University's David E. Swift.

Adam Bradley for the Barnes & Noble Review, 8 April, Imani Perry for the San Francisco Chronicle, 24 April, and David Remnick, "This American Life," New Yorker, 25 April, review Manning Marable's Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention. Karl Evanzz, "Paper Tiger: Manning Marable's Poison Pen, Truth Continuum, 13 April, is a very hostile review of Marable's biography of Malcolm X. The review was commissioned and, then, rejected by Skip Gates's The Root. Background here & here.

Dwight Garner, "Recalling Childhood as a Styron," NYT, 19 April, and James Campbell, "A Daughter Remembers William Styron," NYT, 22 April, review Alexandra Styron's Reading My Father: A Memoir.