Modern History Notes

Richard Byrne,"Policed Academy," bookforum, February/March, reviews John H. Summers's Every Fury on Earth. Hat tip.

Holland Cotter,"Gaze East and Dream," NYT, 29 January, reviews"The Third Mind: American Artists Contemplate Asia, 1860-1989," an exhibit at Manhattan's Guggenheim Museum.

P. D. Smith,"Woolworth's shrine to commerce," TLS, 28 January, reviews Gail Fenske's The Skyscraper and the City: The Woolworth Building and the making of modern New York, Robert H. Kargon's and Arthur P. Molella's Invented Edens: Techno-cities of the twentieth century, and Dell Upton's Another City: Urban life and urban spaces in the new American republic.

Helen Brown reviews Graham Farmelo's The Strangest Man: the Hidden Life of Paul Dirac for the Telegraph, 23 January.

Sergei Larenkov at Fima_Psuchopadt matches World War II-era Russian photographs with shots of the same sites today. Hat tip.

Dan Nguyen and Christopher Weaver,"The Missing Memos," Pro Publica, 28 January, compiles and continues to update a list of crucial internal Bush administration memoranda designed to enhance executive authority to detain and/or torture anyone.