Serena Golden interviews Harvard's Ann M. Blair, the author of Too Much to Know: Managing Scholarly Information Before the Modern Age, for IHE, 17 March.

Britt Peterson,"Land of Disaster," Foreign Policy, 14 March, is a photo/essay about the popular culture of natural disaster in Japan. See also: Peter Wynn Kirby,"Japan's Long Nuclear Disaster Film," Opinionator, 14 March; and Garance Franke-Ruta,"Barefoot Gen: The Japanese Cartoon Character Who Stoked Our Nuclear Fears," Atlantic, 15 March.

Adam Kirsch,"Makeover," Tablet, 15 March, reviews Meryle Secrest's Modigliani: A Life.

Marie Gottschalk,"Is Death Different?" The Book, 16 March, reviews David Garland's Peculiar Institution: America's Death Penalty in an Age of Abolition.

Finally, farewell to Morris David Morris, an economic historian of south Asia, and to Donny George Youkhanna, distinguished Iraqi archaeologist.