Sunday's Notes

"Afghan treasures give peek into history," Houston Chronicle, 28 February, reviews"Afghanistan: Hidden Treasures from the National Museum, Kabul," an exhibit on world tour that opens today at the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, Texas.

Joseph Caputo,"Solving a 17th Century Crime," Smithsonian, March, looks at the murder of an indentured servant in colonial Maryland. It's one of a number of cases featured in"Written in Bone: Forensic Files of the 17th Century Chesapeake," an exhibit at the National Museum of Natural History in Washington.

Jamie James reviews Frances Wilson's The Ballad of Dorothy Wordsworth: A Life for the LA Times, 1 March.

Rich Cohen,"On the Road to El Dorado," NYT, 26 February, reviews David Grann's The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon.

Joshua Prager,"The Wallenberg Curse," WSJ, 28 February, tells the agonizing story of Raoul Wallenberg's family's relentless quest for information about his fate.

Jim Holt,"Suicide Squad," NYT, 26 February, reviews Alexander Waugh's The House of Wittgenstein: A Family at War.

Armond White,"What the Wind Blew In," NYT, 26 February, reviews Molly Haskell's Frankly, My Dear:"Gone with the Wind" Revisited.

David Ignatius,"Welcome to the Toughest Job in Town," Washington Post, 1 March, reviews Ivo H. Daalder's and I. M. Destler's In the Shadow of the Oval Office: Profiles of the National Security Advisers and the Presidents They Served -- From JFK to George W. Bush.