Heather Cox Richardson,"Lincoln, Eisenhower, and Lies," THS, 31 January, asks why the press focused so heavily on Thomas Lowry's changing of the date on a Lincoln document while largely ignoring Stephen Ambrose's making up interviews de novo.

Marc Olivier Baruch,"A French New Deal?" books & ideas.net, 21 January, reviews Philip Nord's France's New Deal: From the Thirties to the Postwar Era. The review appeared originally in La Vie des idées.fr.

Blake Bailey,"For Salinger, With Love," Slate, 31 January, reviews Kenneth Slawenski's J. D. Salinger: A Life.

Kerri MacDonald,"Cairo's Ornate (or Odd) Portals to the Past," Lens, 31 January, features the Egyptian city's quirky museums. Al Jazeera English: Live Stream for coverage of the crisis in Egypt.