- From Jennifer Howard in the Chronicle, a look at hyper-modern imaging techniques being used to read the 8th-century St. Chad Gospels (see video at the bottom of the story, too).
- A new series from Book Patrol, "In the Stacks," beginning with images from the BPL's Flickr stream (now with about 15,000 images).
- If you read one essay this week, make it Alexander Chee's "I, Reader," which is a delightful look at a longtime reader's take on e-reading.
- In the WSJ, Goran Mijuk writes on high-spot book collecting.
- A Native American knife sheath from the 1850s, stolen from the Wisconsin Historical Society in the 1990s by curator David Wooley, was returned from a New York museum after an artifact dealer recognized it. More than 100 items stolen by Wooley remain missing from the WHS collections.
- I missed it last weekend, but Arthur Krystal's "The Joy of Lists" from the NYTBR is certainly worth a read.
- In the WaPo, a short profile of Dave Eggers.
- J.L. Bell found some interesting things when he went poking around early American newspapers scanned by Google.
Reviews
- Thomas Allen's Tories; review by David Waldstreicher in the NYTimes.
- Ron Chernow's Washington; review by Brendan Simms in the Telegraph.
- Simon Winchester's Atlantic; reviews by Bruce Barcott in the NYTimes and Scott Martelle in the LATimes.
- Pauline Maier's Ratification; review by Gordon Wood in TNR.
- Thomas Powers' The Killing of Crazy Horse; review by David Treuer in the WaPo.
- Adrian Tinniswood's Pirates of Barbary; review by Ian Toll in the NYTimes.
- Nicholas Phillipson's Adam Smith: An Enlightened Life; review by Michael Dirda in the WaPo.
