Peter Thonemann,"The true heroes of the Battle of Marathon," TLS, 16 March, reviews Richard A. Billows's Marathon: How One Battle Changed Western Civilization and Peter Krentz's The Battle of Marathon.

Michael Dirda,"Celebrating Montaigne, celebrator of life," Washington Post, 17 March, reviews Saul Frampton's When I Am Playing With My Cat, How Do I Know She Is Not Playing With Me? Montaigne and Being in Touch with Life and Sarah Bakewell's How To Live; Or, A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer.

David Levering Lewis,"Twain's Gilded Age, and Ours," Democracy, Spring, reviews Harriet Elinor Smith, ed., Autobiography of Mark Twain, I.

Benny Morris,"An Officer and a Bedouin," National Interest, March/Apr, reviews Michael Korda's Hero: The Life and Legend of Lawrence of Arabia.

Jonathan Wilson,"Hasidic Cubism," Tablet, 16 March, reviews"Paris Through the Window: Marc Chagall and His Circle," an exhibit at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.