The Guardian, 10 October, has an extract from Alec Ryrie's The Sorcerer's Tale: Faith and Fraud in Tudor England.

John Guy reviews Glyn Redworth's The She-Apostle: The Extraordinary Life and Death of Luisa de Carvajal for the TLS, 12 October.

Betty Smartt Carter,"Serf, Diva, Countess," Books & Culture, September/October, reviews Douglas Smith's The Pearl: A True Tale of Forbidden Love in Catherine the Great's Russia.

Saul David reviews David Loyn's Butcher & Bolt, a 200 year history of foreign interventions in Afghanistan, for the Telegraph, 4 October.

Tim Stafford,"Created Equal," Books & Culture, September/ October, reviews Sally McMillen's Seneca Falls and the Origins of the Women's Rights Movement.

National Public Radio's All Things Considered is running a five-part series on losing candidates in earlier American presidential campaigns. Part I is on Victoria Woodhull's campaign in 1872; Part II, on William Jennings Bryan's 1896 campaign, features Cliopatria's Michael Kazin. Today: Adlai Stevenson.

Jerry Saltz,"Dark Victory," New York Magazine, 12 October, reviews"Van Gogh and the Colors of the Night," an exhibit at New York's Museum of Modern Art.

John Derbyshire,"The Brat Pack of Quantum Physics," New Atlantis, Summer, reviews Gino Segre's Faust in Copenhagen: A Struggle for the Soul of Physics. Hat tip.