William Grimes,"Gleefully Upsetting the Artistic Applecart," NYT, 21 November, reviews Peter Gay's Modernism: The Lure of Heresy from Baudelaire to Beckett and Beyond.

A. S. Byatt,"The Wild Ones," Guardian, 24 November, reviews"The Age of Enchantment: Beardsley, Dulac and their Contemporaries 1890-1930," an exhibit from the"golden age" of the illustrated book at London's Dulwich Picture Gallery.

Michael Dirda,"The third volume of Picasso's biography is wickedly, even sinfully, entertaining," Washington Post, 25 November, reviews John Richardson's and Marilyn McCully's A Life of Picasso: The Triumphant Years, 1917-1932.

Joshua Rubenstein,"Stalin's Children," NYT, 25 November, reviews Orlando Figes's The Whisperers: Private Life in Stalin's Russia.

Tom Paulin,"Enterpreneurship," LRB, 29 November, reviews Christopher Reid's edition of the Letters of Ted Hughes.

Shortly after David Kaiser published his thoughtful review of Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.'s Journals, 1952-2000 here at Cliopatria, the New York Public Library announced that it has purchased 400 boxes of the Schlesinger Papers, including 5,000 unpublished pages of the historian's journals, for an undisclosed price. Kaiser's point that, in an earlier time, more of Schlesinger's journals would have been published in several volumes is surely correct.