Jun 11, 2011

Weak Endnotes

by Cliopatria

Katie Zezima, "College Fights Subpoena of Interviews Tied to I.R.A.," NYT, 9 June, and Kevin Cullen, "US college requests quashing of oral history subpoenas," Irish Times, 11 June, report on Boston College's effort to protect the anonymity of Irish Republican Army members interviewed by the Belfast Project between 2001 and 2006. Thanks to Jeff Vanke for the tip.

John Barrell, "Shandyesque adventures with Capability Brown," TLS, 8 June, reviews Jane Brown's The Omnipotent Magician: Lancelot "Capability" Brown, 1716–1783.

Alexandra Harris reviews Rodney Bolt's As Good as God, as Clever as the Devil: The Impossible Life of Mary Benson for the Guardian, 9 June.

Bernard Manzo, "The Miraculous G. K. Chesterton," TLS, 8 June, reviews Ian Kerr's G. K. Chesterton: A Biography and William Oddie, ed., The Holiness of G. K. Chesterton.

Stanley Kanfer, "Films in Fraught Times," WSJ, 30 April, reviews J. Hoberman's An Army of Phantoms: American Movies and the Making of the Cold War and Nick Smedley's A Divided World: Hollywood Cinema and Émigré Directors In the Era of Roosevelt and Hitler, 1933-1948. Andrew Hultkranz, "The Paranoid Style," bookforum, Summer, reviews Hoberman's An Army of Phantoms.

Mark Shechner, "Rough Draft," Tablet, 10 June, reviews Richard M. Cook, ed., Alfred Kazin's Journals.

Tariq Ali, "Andropov was right," LRB, 16 June, reviews Rodric Braithwaite's Afgantsy: The Russians in Afghanistan, 1979-89 and Artemy Kalinovsky's A Long Goodbye: The Soviet Withdrawal from Afghanistan.