Paul Richard,"Day of Wrath," Washington Post, 19 October, reviews"Pompeii and the Roman Villa: Art and Culture Around the Bay of Naples," an exhibit that opens today at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC.

Kwame Anthony Appiah,"How Muslims Made Europe," NYRB, 6 November, reviews David Levering Lewis's God's Crucible: Islam and the Making of Modern Europe, 570–1215. Appiah takes seriously a book that has had roughtreatmentbyearlierreviewers.

John Tagliabue,"Bringing a Trove of Medieval Manuscripts Online for the Ages," NYT, 18 October, reports on the project to digitize the manuscripts at the abbey library, or Stiftsbibliothek, at St. Gallen, Switzerland. It is part of a larger project to digitize all 7,000 of Switzerland's medieval manuscripts. You can already view 144 of St. Gallen's manuscripts here. Hat tip.

Kathryn Shevelow,"An Earlier European Union," Washington Post, 17 October, reviews Lisa Jardine's Going Dutch: How England Plundered Holland's Glory.