Thursday's Notes

Jonathan Jones reviews"Journey Through the Afterlife: Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead," an exhibit at the British Museum, for the Guardian, 2 November.

Emilie Savage-Smith,"Pioneers in the war on error," THE, 4 November, reviews Jameel (Jim) Al-Khalili's Pathfinders: The Golden Age of Arabic Science.

John Steele Gordon,"When History Rides the Waves," WSJ, 1 November, reviews Simon Winchester's Atlantic.

Amity Shlaes,"An Age of Creative Destruction," WSJ, 29 October, reviews H. W. Brands's American Colossus: The Triumph of Capitalism 1865-1900.

Sarah Churchwell,"Mark Twain: not an American but the American," Guardian, 30 October, and Craig Fehrman,"Mark Twain's Amazing Embargo," Slate, 28 October review Autobiography of Mark Twain, I, Harriet E. Smith, et al., eds.

Sarah Boxer,"The Real Secret of War Photography," Slate, 3 November, is a slide show of recently recovered photographs from the Spanish Civil War. They are from"The Mexican Suitcase: Rediscovered Spanish Civil War Negatives by Capa, Chim, and Taro," an exhibit at Manhattan's International Center of Photography.