"Danny was an ordinary person, and a damn good reporter... This will be a tribute to a life that represents our culture." Composer Steve Reich describing his new work, Daniel Variations, due to be premiered in London next month. [I can't see an online link to the Guardian piece yet - will try again later. In the meantime, more here.]
Deborah Lipstadt, author of that superb account of her day in court with David Irving, reviews a new book on the history of ethnic cleansing in Europe.
Finally, I came home from holiday with a cutting from Libération about what sounds like a deeply moving exhibition by the artist Boris Taslitzky, a Communist who survived imprisonment in Buchenwald during WW2. Slightly to my surprise, I've discovered that the article is still available on the Web. The exhibition itself, in Paris, has another few weeks to run.
