More Noted Things

John Noble Wilford,"A Lost European Culture, Pulled From Obscurity," NYT, 30 November, reviews"The Lost World of Old Europe: The Danube Valley, 5000-3500 BC," an exhibit at NYU's Institute for the Study of the Ancient World in Manhattan.

Toby Lester,"Armchair Travelers," American Scholar, Autumn, is an essay about Petrarch and Boccaccio from Lester's book, The Fourth Part of the World: The Race to the Ends of the Earth, and the Epic Story of the Map That Gave America its Name.

Ned Crabb,"Risky Business," WSJ, 26 November, reviews Jenny Uglow's A Gambling Man: Charles II's Restoration Game.

Edward Rothstein,"For Poe, This Has Been the Year to Die For," NYT, 30 November, reviews The Poe Museum and"Poe: Man, Myth, or Monster," an exhibit at the Library of Virginia in Richmond.

Tim Burke,"Anatomy of a Search," Easily Distracted, 30 November, is a fascinating search for the family connection to Cretan nationalism and the Greco-Turkish War of 1897.

John G. Turner,"Heroic Failures," Religion in American History, 22 November, and James B. LeGrande,"Reconsidering ‘The Wizard of Tuskegee'," First Principles, 22 September, review Robert J. Norrell's Up From History: The Life of Booker T. Washington. Hat tip.

Hugh Eakin,"Real recognize real," The National, 5 November, reviews John Brewer's The American Leonardo: A Tale of Obsession, Art and Money.

Sam Tanenhaus,"North Star," New Yorker, 7 December, reviews Sarah Palin's Going Rogue: An American Life.