Recent History Notes

Dorothy and Thomas Hoobler,"Stealing ‘Mona Lisa'," Vanity Fair, May, is an excerpt from their The Crimes of Paris: A True Story of Murder, Theft, and Detection.

Mark Mazower,"Anderson's Amphibologies: On Perry Anderson," The Nation, 7 April, reviews Perry Anderson's The New Old World.

Amy Black,"Taking the Measure of Barack Obama," Books & Culture, April, reviews David Remnick's The Bridge: The Life and Rise of Barack Obama and Thomas Sugrue's Not Even Past: Barack Obama and the Burden of Race.

John Allen Paulos,"He Conquered the Conjecture," NYRB, 29 April, reviews Masha Gessen's Perfect Rigor: A Genius and the Mathematical Breakthrough of the Century.