Modern European Notes

Terry Eagleton,"Unhoused," LRB, 22 May, reviews John Mullan's Anonymity: A Secret History of English Literature. Hat tip to Brian Sholis.

Richie Robertson,"Josef Fritzl's fictive forebears," TLS, 14 May, tracks a line of degenerates in modern Austrian literature.

Francis Beckett,"Because our fathers lied," Guardian, 17 May, reviews four new books about World War I.

Benjamin Schwartz,"Waste Not, Want Everything," Atlantic Monthly, June, reviews David Kyneston's Austerity Britain, 1945-1951, the first of a multi-volume history of Great Britain after World War II, Tales of a New Jerusalem.