Holland Cotter, "When East Met West Under the Buddha's Gaze," NYT, 10 August, reviews "The Buddhist Heritage of Pakistan: Art of Gandhara," an exhibit at The Asia Society Museum in Manhattan.

Russ McDonald, "Shakespeare's beasts," TLS, 10 August, reviews Andreas Höfele's Stage, Stake, and Scaffold: Humans and animals in Shakespeare's theatre.

Timothy Snyder, "Toleration and the Future of Europe," NYRBlog, 10 August, argues that it is much too simple to call the Polish defeat of Ottoman armies at Vienna in 1683 a Christian defeat of Islam.

Bhaskar Sunkara, "Dances with Anarchists," New Inquiry, 10 August, reviews Vivian Gornick's Emma Goldman: Revolution as a Way of Life.

Philip Horne for the Telegraph, 10 August, reviews Richard M. Cook, ed., Alfred Kazin's Journals.

Manan Ahmed, "Pakistan: why the US must think outside the 'military' box," The National, 11 August, reviews Anatol Lieven's Pakistan: A Hard Country, Maleeha Lodhi, ed., Pakistan: Beyond the Crisis State, and Bruce Riedel's Deadly Embrace: Pakistan, America and the Future of Global Jihad.