highlyeccentric | Some links, mostly the TLS (Reply)

I'm waaay behind, but I have a few issues waiting for me to pin the essays I recall or might want to recall and then I can ditch the rest.

Rosemary Righter, Ox Demons and Snake Spirits: The Causes and effects of the Chinese Cultural Revolution, review of Yang Jisheng, The World Turned Upside Down.

Rohan Maitzen, Austen in Nazi Europe: review of Olivia Manning's 'Balkan Trilogy'. I constantly went back and forth throughout this as to whether I now want to read the trilogy, or I now know it will annoy me.

Julia Priest, Queen But Not Queen, review of Mark Bryant's 'Queen of Versailles'.

Kathryn Hughes, Beyond the school for scandal, review of Antonia Fraser's bio of Caroline Norton

Sean O'Brien, The doors they came out by: Nostalgia for a vanished pub.

Simon Beattie, A lamp left burning, review of Johann-Günther König's biography (DE) of Freido Lampe. Je just sounded cool.

David Edgerton, Pit stops: A study in the lost world of British labourism, review of Huw Benyon and Ray Hudson, 'The Shadow of the Mine'

Felix Waldmann, Level Unlocked: a manuscript discovery confirms John Lock's reading of Hobbes. I don't know much about either philosopher but now I know slightly more.

D.J. Taylor, Larger than life: How to go about writing an obituary. This was fascinating!

Nicola Shulman, The enigma of the recorder: a portrait of Cecil Beaton's coterie, review of Hugo Vickers, 'Malice in Wonderland: My adventures in the world of Cecil Beaton'. "Perhaps the most revelatory aspect of this adventure, and the part that Vickers has captured whole, is how little interest the subject of Cecil Beaton excites". (I snorted)

Kathryn Hughes, Go ask Alice, I think she'll know: review of the V&A's Alice: Curiouser and Curioser exhibition, and of Jake Fior's 'Through a looking glass darkly'.

Jakob Hofman, Coring the Big Apple, review of 'The Great Mistake', which covers the life (and death= of Andrew Haswell Green, a town planner essential to the layout of New York. Convinced me the book would be engaging; did NOT give me the impression the book deals in any depth with the racialised nature of Green's work, eg, the Central Park project. Pity, because Green's life and death do sound fascinating.

Philip Horne, An element of the cruel: what Henry James found when he went back to America, review of Henry James, 'The American Scene' (new ed. by Peter Collister). Dithers a bit over James' racism but at least addresses it. Otherwise an interesting synthesis of a book I... probably never will read, lbr.

Robert Gildea, Imperial Blether, review of Pria Satia, 'Time's Monster: History, conscience and Britain's empire. At least SOMETHING in the TLS admits it's not feasible to dither about the past, and that Britain today has no real way of reckoning with the atrocities of empire.

That will have to do for the night, the kitten is rampaging.

Ed: first link (which went to kitten instead of article) now fixed