Sunday's Notes

George Johnson,"Den of Antiquities," NYT, 26 August, reviews Craig Childs's Finders Keepers: A Tale of Archaeological Plunder and Obsession.

Henrik Bering,"True Barbarians," Policy Review, n.d., reviews Adrian Tinniswood's Pirates of Barbary: Corsairs, Conquests and Captivity in the Seventeenth-Century Mediterranean.

Joseph Berger,"Revolutionary Road," NYT, 26 August, reviews Eric Jaffe's The King's Best Highway: The Lost History of the Boston Post Road, the Route That Made America.

John Schwartz,"Steam-Driven Dreams," NYT, 26 August, reviews William Rosen's The Most Powerful Idea in the World: A Story of Steam, Industry, and Invention.

Peter Conrad for the Guardian, 29 August, reviews Eadweard Muybridge, an exhibit at London's Tate Britain Gallery.

David A. Bell,"Pogroms of Words," TNR, 27 August, reviews Frederick Brown's For the Soul of France: Culture Wars in the Age of Dreyfus.

Tara McKelvey,"Where Hatred Ruled," NYT, 26 August, reviews Alex Heard's The Eyes of Willie McGhee: A Tragedy of Race, Sex, and Secrets in the Jim Crow South.

Mark Harris,"I Get Around," NYT, 26 August, reviews Justin Spring's Secret Historian: The Life and Times of Samuel Steward, Professor, Tattoo Artist, and Sexual Renegade.