More Noted Things

The Lod Mosaic is currently on display at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art and will show in San Francisco, Chicago and Columbus, Ohio, before returning for permanent display in Israel. G. W. Bowersock examines"The Lod Mosaic," NYR Blog, 14 February.

In"Civil War Siren," Tablet, 14 February, Sara Ivry interviews Michael and Barbara Foster, the authors of A Dangerous Woman: The Life, Loves, and Scandals of Adah Isaacs Menken, 1835-1868, America's Original Superstar. Before her death at 33, she had five marriages and many lovers, including Alexandre Dumas and Algernon Swinburne. Menken's story is remarkable.

Roberto Foa and Thomas Meaney,"The Last Word," Utopian, 10 February, interviews the late Daniel Bell.

Niall Ferguson,"Niall Ferguson Blasts Obama's Foreign Policy," Daily Beast, 13 February, is his maiden column for Newsweek.