Wednesday's Notes

Things Ancient: Ethan Bronner,"Israel to Display the Dead Sea Scrolls on the Internet," NYT, 26 August, announces the digitization of the Dead Sea fragments. And they really did use Scotch Tape to piece them together in the 1950s!
Richard Covington,"Lost & Found," Smithsonian, September, reviews"Afghanistan: Hidden Treasures From the National Museum, Kabul," an exhibit at Washington, D.C.'s National Gallery of Art (through September 7) and which travels to San Francisco's Asian Art Museum (October 24, 2008-January 25, 2009), Houston's Museum of Fine Arts (February 22-May 17, 2009), and New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art (June 23-September 20, 2009).

Midterm Madness: Patrick McGrath,"Brought to mind," Guardian, 23 August, reviews Catharine Arnold's Bedlam: London and Its Mad.

Things Modern: Adam Kirsch,"How Jacob Riis Lived," NY Sun, 27 August, reviews Tom and Annette Buk-Swienty's The Other Half: The Life of Jacob Riis and the World of Immigrant America.
David A. Skeel,"Trustbusting 101," Books & Culture, July/August, reviews Steve Weinberg's Taking on the Trust: How an Investigative Journalist Brought Down Standard Oil.
John Updike,"Makeup and Make-believe," New Yorker, 1 September, reviews Fred E. Basten's Max Factor: The Man Who Changed the Faces of the World.
Our colleague, Manan Ahmed, takes questions from callers on Chicago Public Radio's"Worldview" about the resignation of Pakistan's Pervez Musharraf.