Mid-20th Century Notes

Timothy Snyder,"Who's Afraid of Ukranian History?" NYRBlog, 21 September, looks at the struggle to control the narrative.

Robert O. Paxton,"Occupied Minds," bookforum, June/August, reviews Frederic Spotts's The Shameful Peace: How French Artists and Intellectuals Survived the Nazi Occupation, Laurence Bertrand Dorleac's Art of the Defeat: France 1940–1944, and Kirrily Freeman's Bronzes to Bullets: Vichy and the Destruction of French Public Statuary, 1941–1944.

Ruth Franklin,"How Do We Understand the Holocaust?" TNR, 22 September, features the problem of distinguishing fact from fiction.

Adam Kirsch,"Turning Point," Tablet, 21 September, reviews Larry Stempel's Showtime: A History of the Broadway Musical Theater .

Jack Schafer,"The Journalist as Spy," Slate, 20 September, reviews Mark Feldstein's Poisoning the Press: Richard Nixon, Jack Anderson, and the Rise of Washington's Scandal Culture.