Notes Ancient to Modern

Neal Ascherson,"It's a sin, what we've done to this place," Guardian, 16 November, Boyd Tonkin,"Babylon: Myth and Reality," Independent, 23 November, and Peter Campbell,"At the British Museum," LRB, 18 December, review"Babylon, Myth and Reality," an exhibit at London's BM.

Michael Kimmelman,"Unraveling a 15th-Century Whodunit," NYT, 10 December, reviews"The Master of Flémalle and Rogier van der Weyden," an exhibit at Frankfurt's Städel Museum.

Janet Maslin,"What's Shakespeare to Us, and We to Him? Plenty," NYT, 10 December, reviews Marjorie Garber's Shakespeare and Modern Culture."... her sometimes-preposterous book mixes specious points with sharply incisive ones, and her good ideas are worth the trouble."

Simon Sebag Montefiore,"Tsar Boot Sale," Literary Review, December/January, reviews Sean McMeekin's History's Greatest Heist: The Looting of Russia by the Bolsheviks.

Alison Light,"Lady Talky," LRB, 18 December, reviews Judith Mackrell's Bloomsbury Ballerina: Lydia Lopokova, Imperial Dancer and Mrs John Maynard Keynes.

Elaine Showalter,"'I Create Myself'," Literary Review, December/ January, reviews Susan Sontag, Reborn: Early Diaries 1947- 1964. Hat tip.