Notes Ancient & Modern

"Inside Lascaux: Rare, Unpublished," Life, 8 September, is a Lascaux slide show. Beautiful cave paintings in color for the first time made public; fascinating black and white shots of the 1940s photographic expedition.

Nabil Shawkat,"Restoring History," The National, 12 September, takes a close look at the restoration of Egyptian antiquities.

Jesse Smith,"A Bridge Over Troubled Water," Smart Set, 13 September, reviews Michael Hiltzik's Colossus: Hoover Dam and the Making of the American Century.

Joyce Shaw Peterson reviews Rebecca Jo Plant's Mom: The Transformation of Motherhood in Modern America for the THE, 9 September.

Todd McCarthy,"Monarch of the Movie Set," WSJ, 11 September, reviews Scott Eyman's Empire of Dreams: The Epic Life of Cecil B. DeMille.

Curtis Sittenfeld interviews Rebecca Traister, the author of "Big Girls Don't Cry": The election that changed everything for women, Salon, 12 September.