ABSTRACT:BOOK review of a new translation of the Iliad.

NEWYORKER: Battle Lines

ABSTRACT:A CRITIC AT LARGE about new books on Rome.

NEWYORKER: The Empire Strikes Back

There was a time when an emotional response to abstract sculpture was still so new it sharply divided those who came upon it.

ECONOMIST: Richard Serra shows off his rings of steel

Then, in the second gallery, a new world of possibilities seems to be opening up, with some of Sir Anthony's earliest abstract sculptures from the 1960s, open-work forms in painted steel and aluminium, all resting on the ground.

ECONOMIST: Anthony Caro: Primary form | The

What caught my eye this month is "The Sisters" (below), a hypnotically luminous 1991-93 abstract work by Brice Marden, one of America's leading artists and the subject of a new book, "Brice Marden: Phaidon Focus" (Phaidon).

WSJ: A Flower Arrangement Inspired by Art