Michiko Kakutani,"Bonds That Seem Cruel Can Be Kind," NYT, 3 November, and John Updike,"Dreamy Wilderness," New Yorker, 3 November, review Toni Morrison's most recent novel, A Mercy.

David Brown,"Lincoln, Unexposed," Washington Post, 8 November, reviews"The Mask of Lincoln," an exhibit at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, DC.
Peter Schjeldahl,"Angry Young Man," New Yorker, 10 November, reviews"Joan Miró: Painting and Anti-Painting, 1927-1937," an exhibit at Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art.
Holland Cotter,"Old South Meets New, in Living Color," NYT, 6 November, reviews"William Eggleston: Democratic Camera, Photographs and Video, 1961-2008," an exhibit at the Whitney Museum of American Art in Manhattan.

Ian Buruma,"The Lessons of the Master," NYRB, 20 November, reviews Patrick French's The World Is What It Is: The Authorized Biography of V.S. Naipaul.

Orlando Patterson,"An Eternal Revolution," NYT, 7 November, looks at the election of Barack Obama in historical perspective.

Finally, thanks to AHA Today, Airminded, American Creation, Archaeoastronomy, Blogenspiel, Civil War Memory, Early Modern Notes, In the Middle, Legal History, Mercurius Politicus, Progressive Historians, Public Historian, Rogue Classicism, Spinning Clio and Walking the Berkshires for helping to get the word out about nominations for The Cliopatria Awards. Whether it's Ancient, Pre-Modern, United States or Regional histories, history of science, K-12, digital, or military history, if you think more recognition of excellent blogging in your corner of the history blogosphere is due, this is a fine way to do it.