Thursday's Notes
Scott McLemee's interview with John H. Summers,"Every Fury on Earth," IHE, 15 April, is not to be missed.
John Steele Gordon,"Inventing a New World," WSJ, 11 April, reviews Gavin Weightman's The Industrial Revolutionaries: The Making of the Modern World, 1776-1914.
Mark Bostridge,"Austenmania," Literary Review, April, reviews Claire Harman's Jane's Fame: How Jane Austen Conquered the World.
John Pipkin,"Woods Burner," Boston Globe, 12 April, argues that Thoreau may have taken up residence at Walden Pond because of a forest fire that he'd sparked a year earlier.
RA Scotti,"The story behind theft of the Mona Lisa," London Times, 12 April, is an extract from Scotti's The Lost Mona Lisa: The Extraordinary True Story of the Greatest Art Theft in History.
J. M. Coetzee,"The Making of Samuel Beckett," NYRB, 30 April, reviews Martha Dow Fehsenfeld and Lois More Overbeck, eds., The Letters of Samuel Beckett, Volume 1: 1929–1940.
Benjamin Schwarz,"Hitler's Co-Conspirators," Atlantic, May, reviews Richard J. Evans's The Third Reich at War, Peter Fritzsche's Life and Death in the Third Reich, Ian Kershaw's Hitler, the Germans, and the Final Solution, and Germany and the Second World War, Vol. IX: German Wartime Society 1939–1945.
Jeff Carlton,"CIA documents shine light on secretive Air America," AP, 14 April, announces the archival deposit of Air America records, documenting the airline essentially owned and operated by the CIA.
Sandra Tsing Loh,"Class Dismissed," Atlantic, March, reviews Paul Fussell's Class: A Guide Through the American Status System, Michael Tolkin's The Return of the Player, and Bill Bishop's The Big Sort.