• An article about the writings of Aharon Appelfeld said he and his parents were taken to a Nazi labour camp, from which he escaped in 1942, aged 10, and that he never saw his parents again. In fact his mother had been killed earlier and Appelfeld was taken to the camp with his father, with whom he was reunited years later in Israel (“Survivors’ tales”, 11 August, New Review, p39).
• Li Rui, who was Mao Zedong’s personal secretary before publicly criticising the Chinese leader, was persecuted from 1959, when he was sent to a penal camp, not only during the later Cultural Revolution as we suggested. Also Li kept detailed diaries from 1946 to 2018, rather than from 1938 (“Power battle rages over historic diaries of Mao’s secretary”, 18 August, p30).
• The ages of the writer Jenni Fagan and the actor Samantha Morton were transposed in an interview. Fagan is 46 and Morton is 47 (“How two women coped with the trauma of growing up in care”, 18 August, New Review, p8). Also Fagan performed in punk bands in the 1990s, not 1980s.
• The clue for 1 down in our Azed crossword 2,721 on 11 August (New Review, p47) contained an incorrect definition and so were ignored when judging entries. We regret any frustration caused to solvers.
• A recipe for butterflied mackerel omitted to say when to add the red pepper. It goes in with the tomatoes, chillies and garlic to make the sauce (18 August, Food Monthly, p20).
Other recently amended articles include:
A Place Called Silence review – suspenseful Malaysian high school horror reboot
Inciting rioters in Britain was a test run for Elon Musk. Just see what he plans for America
• Write to the Readers’ Editor, the Observer, York Way, London N1 9GU, email observer.readers@observer.co.uk, tel 020 3353 4736
