More Noted Things

John Noble Wilford,"In Syria, a Prologue for Cities," NYT, 5 April, discusses findings at Tell Zeidan, a"pre-urban" settlement in what is now northern Syria.

Kelefa Sanneh,"Beyond the Pale," New Yorker, 12 April, reviews Rich Benjamin's Searching for Whitopia, Nell Painter's The History of White People, David Roediger's How Race Survived U.S. History and Christian Lander's Stuff White People Like.

Marc Fisher reviews Simon Winder's Germania: In Wayward Pursuit of the Germans and Their History for the Washington Post, 4 April.

Gwen Ifill for the Washington Post, 4 March, and Michiko Kakutani,"Seeking Identity, Shaping a Nation's," NYT, 5 April, review David Remnick's The Bridge: The Life and Rise of Barack Obama. You can hear Remnick discuss Obama's political career here.