Friday's Notes

Martin Gayford,"Italian Renaissance Drawings - the iPhone of the Renaissance," Telegraph, 20 April; Richard B. Woodward,"Sublime Sketches Rarely Seen," WSJ, 20 June; and James Hall,"The cult of the Renaissance sketch," TLS, 7 July, review"Fra Angelico to Leonardo: Italian Renaissance Drawings," an exhibit at the British Museum.

Phil Baker,"A history of anarchists - and their enemies," TLS, 7 July, reviews Alex Butterworth's A World That Never Was: A true story of dreamers, schemers, anarchists and secret agents.

J. P. E. Harper-Scott,"Myths and legends of Chopin and Tchaikovsky," TLS, 7 July, reviews Roland John Wiley's Tchaikovsky and Adam Zamoyski's Chopin.

David Shribman,"Shattering some of the Stalin-Hitler myths," Boston Globe, 8 July, reviews John Mosier's Deathride: Hitler vs. Stalin — The Eastern Front, 1941-1945.

John Gray,"A clash of ideologues: 'the Enlightenment' versus Islamism," The National, 2 July, reviews Paul Berman's The Flight of the Intellectuals.

Andrew Bacevich,"Non-Believer," TNR, 7 July, finds no moral center in the Obama administration.