Sunday's Notes

Michael Bérubé,"The Way We Learn," NYT, 29 January, reviews Louis Menand's The Marketplace of Ideas.

William Dalrymple reviews James Mather's Pashas: Traders and Travellers in the Islamic World for the Guardian, 31 January.

Vanessa Thorpe,"Uncovered: the man behind Coleridge's Ancient Mariner," Guardian, 31 January, reviews Robert Fowke's The Real Ancient Mariner.

Caroline Weber,"Après le Déluge," NYT, 29 January, reviews Jeffrey H. Jackson's Paris Under Water: How the City of Light Survived the Great Flood of 1910.

Tom Carson,"The Night Belongs to Us," NYT, 29 January, reviews Patti Smith's Just Kids. In"Patti Smith's New York stories," Guardian, 31 January, Gaby Wood interviews Smith.