More Noted Things

Jed Perl,"Venice in Texas," TNR, 2 March, reviews"Paolo Veronese: The Petrobelli Altarpiece," an exhibit at the Blanton Museum of Art at the University of Texas, Austin.

John Rogister,"The Sun King (and his wife)," TLS, 3 March, reviews Nicolas Milovanovic and Alexandre Maral, eds., Louis XIV: L'homme et le roi and Madame de Maintenon's Lettres, 1, 1650–1689, ed. by Hans Bots and Eugénie Bots-Estourgie.

Max Byrd reviews Michael O'Brien's Mrs. Adams in Winter: A Journey in the Last Days of Napoleon for the Barnes & Noble Review, 2 March.

Dwight Garner,"A Look at the Snarled Past of Armenians and Turks," NYT, 2 March, reviews Christopher de Bellaigue's Rebel Land: Unraveling the Riddle of History in a Turkish Town.

Kapuscinski Non-fiction, Artur Domoslawski's new biography of post-World War II Poland's most important foreign correspondent, accuses Kapuscinski of both lying and spying. The accusations draw critical reaction from Neal Ascherson in the Guardian and Morgan Meis at The Smart Set.

Sam Dillon,"Scholar's School Reform U-Turn Shakes Up Debate," NYT, 2 March, tracks the radical revision of Diane Ravitch's thinking about American education.