Things Ancient & Modern
John Tierney,"A High-Tech Hunt for Lost Art," NYT, 5 October, reports on efforts to locate Leonardo da Vinci's largest painting.
Jill Lepore,"Not So Fast," New Yorker, 12 October, reviews Matthew Stewart's The Management Myth: Why the Experts Keep Getting It Wrong.
Adam Kirsch,"The Great Disconcerting Wipeout," TNR, 5 October, reviews Christopher Bigsby's Arthur Miller.
W. A. Pannapacker,"Confessions of a Middlebrow Professor," CHE, 5 October, reflects on a theme in recent books: Alex Beam's A Great Idea at the Time: The Rise, Fall, and Curious Afterlife of the Great Books (2008), Joan Shelley Rubin's The Making of Middlebrow Culture (1992), and Lawrence Levine's Highbrow/Lowbrow: The Emergence of Cultural Hierarchy in America (1988).
Michelle Cottle,"No Exit: The never-ending lunacy of Betsy McCaughey," TNR, 5 October. She is, of course/alas, a historian.
Finally, farewell to Sir Hugh Lloyd-Jones, the former Regius Professor of Greek at Oxford University and husband of the American classicist, Mary Lefkowitz.