Sam Leith reviews Peter Ackroyd's Poe: A Life Cut Short for Spectator, 23 January.

The National Museum of Public Health has been uploading selections from its several hundred thousands of photographs and other images to Flickr since 2006. You can see their results here, here, and here. Hat tip.

Bruce Bennett,"The Party is Over," NY Sun, 25 January, previews the Lincoln Center's"Envisioning Russia: A Century of Filmmaking," three weeks of Soviet and post-Soviet classics. Hat tip.

Peggy Noonan,"Breaking Up Is Hard to Do," WSJ, 25 January, has tough words for both Democrats and Republicans.