More Noted Things

John Wilson,"Insurgency and Counterinsurgency in the First Century BC," Books & Culture, 23 March, reviews Barry Strauss's The Spartacus War.

Ingrid D. Rowland,"The Flowering Genius of Maria Sibylla Merian," NYRB, 9 April, reviews Kim Todd's Chrysalis: Maria Sibylla Merian and the Secrets of Metamorphosis and"Maria Sibylla Merian & Daughters: Women of Art and Science," an exhibit at Amsterdam's Rembrandt House Museum, February 23–May 18, 2008, and the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, June 10– August 31, 2008.

Lorna Scott Fox,"There Will Always Be Blood: True Crime Writing," The Nation, 18 March, reviews Harold Schechter, ed., True Crime: An American Anthology.

Drew Gilpin Faust,"The Progress of Our Arms," TNR, 18 March, reviews James McPherson's Tried by War: Abraham Lincoln as Commander in Chief.

Thomas Mallon,"Theirs Truly: The Lowell-Bishop Letters," Atlantic, April, reviews Thomas Travisano, with Saskia Hamilton, ed., Words in Air: The Complete Correspondence of Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell.