Roberta Smith, "Putting Names to the Greats of Indian Art," NYT, 29 September, reviews "‘Wonder of the Age': Master Painters of India, 1100-1900," an exhibit at Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Edward Rothstein, "400 Years Old and Ageless," NYT, 29 September, reviews "Manifold Greatness," an exhibit at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, DC.

Kevin Baker, "The Doctors Who Killed a President," NYT, 30 September, and Del Quentin Wilber for the Washington Post, 30 September, review Candice Millard's Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President.

Alison Light, "Servants in the twentieth century," TLS, 28 September, reviews Lucy Delap's Knowing Their Place: Domestic service in twentieth-century Britain.

Joshua Kurlantzick, "After Deng: On China's Transformation," Nation, 27 September, reviews Ezra Vogel's Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China and Henry Kissinger's On China.

Michelle Norris, "Old-Fashioned Letter Writing Meets Digital Age," All Things Considered, 30 September, interviews Shaun Usher, who blogs at Letters of Note. Usher has a contract to do a book of the letters he has published on his blog.