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Five Star Review: “a wonderful read about greed”

Here’s our first customer review on Amazon.com, written by Jill Meyer, a top 500 reviewer for the site: “Jason Felch and Ralph Frammolino, have produced an extraordinary look at the Getty Museum and...

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New Reviews: “gripping,” “riveting” and “slickly written.”

The Economist calls it a “slickly written and well researched detective story.” Sunday’s Los Angeles Times review calls it “a gripping narrative spiked with vivid character sketches,” and “a riveting...

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“A story the Getty wants no one to know…”

  In a new review, SAFE contributor Senta German describes Chasing Aphrodite as “a story the Getty wants no one to know…told from the inside out.” “Jason Felch and Ralph Frammolino…have assembled an...

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New York Review of Books: “An important book”

The New York Review of Books has just published a lengthy write-up of Chasing Aphrodite, calling it “an important book…about money, art and power.” The author, Hugh Eakin, has covered the antiquities...

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Editor’s Choice: “It’s impossible not to become engaged…”

The Christian Science Monitor has named Chasing Aphrodite an “Editor’s Choice.” Their review says: “Felch and Frammolino are serious men, investigative reporters at the top of their games, who very...

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Our response to Hugh Eakin’s review in the NY Review of Books

We’ve submitted the following response to Hugh Eakin’s review of Chasing Aphrodite, which was published in The New York Review of Books earlier this month. As you’ll see, we found the review flattering...

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Dallas Morning News: “A Page-Turner”

In a review published on Sunday, the Dallas Morning News calls Chasing Aphrodite “a fascinating look at the long-standing ‘institutional hypocrisy’ of the acquisition policy of major American Museums.”...

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Marion True: Did the good outweigh the bad?

In archaeologist Malcolm Bell’s review of Chasing Aphrodite in this weekend’s Wall Street Journal, he echoes our premise that museums have destroyed our knowledge of the past by fueling the trade in...

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The Truth about Marion True: Our Response to Malcolm Bell’s review in WSJ

Malcolm Bell’s review of our book Chasing Aphrodite (WSJ, July 1) concurred with our central finding—that American museums fueled the destruction of knowledge by acquiring looted antiquities and using...

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Our exchange with Hugh Eakin at the NY Review of Books

The New York Review of Books has published our exchange with Hugh Eakin about his review of Chasing Aphrodite. For those who haven’t followed the back and forth: Eakin reviewed the book in June’s...

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