Carnivalesque #71, an ancient/medieval edition of the festival, is up at Judith Weingarten's Zenobia: Empress of the East.

Tom Holland for the Guardian, 24 October; Tom Payne for the Telegraph, 29 October; Paul Cartledge for the Independent, 5 November; Steve Donoghue for the Washington Post, 13 February; and Walter Isaacson,"Wise Guy," NYT, 18 February, review Bettany Hughes's The Hemlock Cup: Socrates, Athens and the Search for the Good Life.

Edward Rothstein,"Another Stop on a Long, Improbable Journey," NYT, 20 February, reviews"Secrets of the Silk Road", an exhibit at Philadelphia's Penn Museum.

Maev Kennedy,"Glory be to Gossaert," Guardian, 22 February; and Andrew Butterfield,"Gossart: The Glow of Inspiration," NYRB, 10 March, review"Man, Myth, and Sensual Pleasures: Jan Gossart's Renaissance," an exhibit at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art and London's National Gallery, and Maryan W. Ainsworth, ed., Man, Myth, and Sensual Pleasures: Jan Gossart's Renaissance: The Complete Works.
"Jan Gossart: Conservation Discoveries":

Ann Blair,"Information overload, the early years," Boston Globe, 28 November, offered a foretaste of her book, Too Much to Know: Managing Scholarly Information Before the Modern Age. Michael Dirda for the Washington Post, 12 January, and James Delbourgo,"The quick and the well read," THE, 3 February, review it.