Sunday's Notes

"Egyptian Museum Theft Worse Than First Reported," The Lede, 12 February, reports far more extensive damage at Cairo's National Museum than we had been led to believe. CNN Wire Staff,"King Tut statue among missing Egypt treasures, minister says," CNN World, 13 February, has more details.

Ian Brunskill,"For a Little Room Behind the Shop," American Interest, Mar/Apr, reviews Sarah Bakewell's How to Live: A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at An Answer.

Michael Washburn,"Hot Off the Presses," NYT, 28 January, and Carolyn See,"Truly fun tales of 19th-century counterfeiters," Washington Post, 11 February, review Ben Tarnoff's Moneymakers: The Wicked Lives and Surprising Adventures of Three Notorious Counterfeiters.

Pamela Norris,"A Short Story," Literary Review, February, and Hermione Lee for the Guardian, 12 February, review Kathleen Jones's Katherine Mansfield: The Story-Teller.

Jennet Conant,"Swashbuckling Spymaster," NYT, 11 February, reviews Douglass Waller's Wild Bill Donovan: The Spymaster Who Created the OSS and Modern American Espionage.

Michiko Kakutani,"Peering Into a Reclusive Life," and Jay McInerney,"J. D. Salinger's Love and Squalor," NYT, 10 February, reviews Kenneth Slawenski's J. D. Salinger: A Life.