More Noted Things

Ross Douthat,"Israel and Outremer," NYT, 6 June, finds parallels in 12th century and 21st century Palestine. Jefferson Gray,"Holy Terror: The Rise of the Order of Assassins," Historynet.com, February, sees parallels between the 12th century's Order of the Assassins and the 21st century's Al Qaeda.

Robert Douglas-Fairhurst reviews Wendy Moffat's E. M. Forster: A New Life for the Telegraph, 4 June.

Anne Applebaum,"Angel Factories," The Book, 21 May, reviews Cathy A. Frierson's and Semyon S. Vilensky's Children of the Gulag.

Randy Kennedy,"His Heart Is in the Art of Sleuthing," NYT, 6 June, reviews Robert K. Wittman's memoir, Priceless: How I Went Undercover to Rescue the World's Stolen Treasures.

Michael Agger,"The Internet Diet," Slate, 7 June, and Todd Gitlin,"The Uses of Half-True Alarms," The Book, 7 June, review Nicholas Carr's The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to our Brain.