More Noted Things

Randy Kennedy,"It's a Long Road From Ancient Egypt," NYT, 2 August, reviews"Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs," an exhibit at Discovery Times Square Exposition in New York City. The New York showing of the Tut exhibit will feature one of his chariots, which has never been shown before outside of Egypt.

DeNeen Brown,"Excavation of sites such as Timbuctoo, N.J., is helping to rewrite African American history," Washington Post, 3 August, looks at how archaeological digs at lost African American community sites is reshaping African American history.

Wendy Smith,"How the plan to fall apart soon fell apart," LA Times, 22 July, reviews Alex Butterworth's The World That Never Was: A True Story of Dreamers, Schemers, Anarchists and Secret Agents.

Wendy Smith reviews John Carey's William Golding: The Man Who Wrote Lord of the Flies for the Washington Post, 1 August.

Malise Ruthven,"Righteous & Wrong," NYRB, 19 August, reviews Ayaan Hirsi Ali's Nomad: From Islam to America, Timothy Garton Ash's Facts Are Subversive: Political Writing from a Decade Without a Name, Paul Berman's The Flight of the Intellectuals, Berman's Terror and Liberalism, and Ian Buruma's Taming the Gods: Religion and Democracy on Three Continents.