Things Noted Here and There
In"indulgence & sin," our colleague, Rachel Leow, google-maps her way through Marco Polo's Travels.
Kathryn Hughes,"Six Johns and a Jock," Guardian, 30 August, reviews Humphrey Carpenter's The Seven Lives of John Murray and Jeremy Lewis's Grub Street Irregular.
Piers Brendon,"The open veins of Italy," Guardian, 30 August, reviews Mark Thompson's The White War: Life and Death on the Italian Front, 1915-1918.
Clive James,"The exiles who wowed America," TLS, 27 August, reviews Joseph Horowitz's Artists in Exile: How refugees from twentieth-century war and revolution transformed the American performing arts.
John Updike,"Imperishable Maxwell," New Yorker, 8 September, reviews William Maxwell, Early Novels and Stories and Maxwell, Later Novels and Stories.
Ian Kershaw,"The Twisted Road to War," Guardian, 23 August, identifies a consensus that has emerged among historians about the run-up to world war in the late 1930s.
Norma Clarke,"Housework at the workhouse," TLS, 27 August, reviews Jennifer Worth's Shadows of the Workhouse: The drama of life in postwar London.