More Noted Things

Jill Lepore,"Rap Sheet," New Yorker, 2 November, reviews Randolph Roth's American Homicide and Pieter Spierenburg's A History of Murder: Personal Violence in Europe from the Middle Ages to the Present. See also: Lepore,"Foul Play," ibid.

Peter Brooks,"Napoleon's Eye," NYRB, 19 November, is an essay drawing on Peter Rosenberg, ed., Dominique-Vivant Denon: L'oeil de Napoléon, an exhibition at the Louvre, Paris, October 20, 1999–January 17, 2000, Vivant Denon's No Tomorrow, and Andrew McClellan's Inventing the Louvre: Art, Politics, and the Origins of the Modern Museum in Eighteenth-Century Paris.

Jonathan Raban,"American Pastoral," NYRB, 19 November, reviews Linda Gordon's Dorothea Lange: A Life Beyond Limits and Anne Whiston Spirn's Daring to Look: Dorothea Lange's Photographs and Reports from the Field.

Johann Hari,"How Ayn Rand Became an American Icon," Slate, Jennifer Burns's Goddess of the Market: Ayn Rand and the American Right and Anne Heller's Ayn Rand and the World She Made.

Charlotte Higgins,"Benjamin Britten's diaries reveal boys, bitching and brilliance," Guardian, 31 October, reviews John Evans, ed., Journeying Boy: The Diaries of the Young Benjamin Britten, 1928-1938.