April 29: Special Follow-Ups Edition

Alan Rickman's New York production of Strindberg's Creditors (PMD, April 11) has received excellent notices:

http://theater.nytimes.com/2010/04/22/theater/reviews/22creditors.html

http://www.slantmagazine.com/house/2010/04/creditors-at-the-bam-harvey-theater/

George Simmers at Great War Fiction recommends the new London production of Mikhail Bulgakov's The White Guard (PMD, April 13), another play I am delighted to see revived:

http://greatwarfiction.wordpress.com/2010/04/28/the-white-guard/

If I was historian Orlando Figes (PMD, April 23), I wouldn't want to come out from under my bed-covers:

http://mhpbooks.com/mobylives/?p=14576

The late historian Stephen Ambrose (PMD, April 20) isn't having to live through his own exposure as a fraud, unless ghosts can feel shame:

Everything Ambrose claimed Eisenhower said, including quotes that have often been used by other historians, must now be taken as false.

http://mhpbooks.com/mobylives/?p=14597

http://mhpbooks.com/mobylives/?p=14667

http://opinion.globaltimes.cn/foreign-view/2010-04/525044.html

On a nobler note, more on the late novelist Alan Sillitoe (PMD, April 25):

http://mhpbooks.com/mobylives/?p=14594

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/apr/25/alan-sillitoe-obituary

http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/cultural-capital/2010/04/working-class-sillitoe