Michiko Kakutani,"Abrupt Regime Change in Egypt Is Nothing New. Just Ask Thutmose III," NYT, 28 March, reviews Toby Wilkinson's The Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt.

Leon Neyfakh,"Is this 1848?" Ideas, 27 March, seeks a European analog to the Middle East turmoil.

Scott McLemee,"The Socialist Network," bookforum, Apr/May, reviews Annelies Laschitza, Georg Adler, and Peter Hudis, ed., The Letters of Rosa Luxemburg.

Paul Mitchinson reviews Wendy Lesser's Music for Silenced Voices: Shostakovich and His Fifteen Quartets for the Washington Post, 25 March.

Sholto Byrnes,"Afgansty: a cautionary tale of failed conquests," The National, 24 March, reviews Sir Roderic Braithwaite's Afgantsy: The Russians in Afghanistan, 1979–89.