- The new issue of Common-place is out, filled with great articles and reviews as usual.
- There was a big meeting of the Digital Public Library of America this week, with the announcement of $5 million in additional funding. Key takeaways from Dan Cohen and Amanda French.
- The Yale Law Library has released a Flickr gallery of bookplates.
- Over at Antipodean Footnotes, a look at ownership notations in a copy of a 1476 edition of Legenda aurea sanctorum.
- A new exhibit on the Archimedes Codex is reviewed by Edward Rothstein for the NYTimes.
- From the Fine Books Blog, some trailers for upcoming films based (however loosely) on literature.
- A private notebook used by Bram Stoker in the 1870s has been discovered in the Isle of Wight, and will be published next year.
- From the Harvard Library Innovation Laboratory, a short video of Robert Darnton discussing the future of books and libraries.
- Ben Breen at Res Obscua covers trompe-l'oeil illustration.
- From the Union College newspaper (which I once edited), a look at the College's Special Collections.
- Also from Heather Wolfe, a post at The Collation about dating a Thomas Cromwell letter.
Reviews
- Kimberly Cutter's The Maid; review by Sarah Towers in the NYTimes.
- Charles Mann's 1493; review by Toby Green in the Independent.
- Nathaniel Philbrick's Why Read Moby-Dick?; review by Kathryn Harrison in the NYTimes.
- Martin Hopkinson's Ex Libris; review by Raquel Laneri for Forbes.
- Susan Orlean's Rin Tin Tin; review by Jennifer Schuessler in the NYTimes.
- Tony Horwitz's Midnight Rising; review by David Reynolds in the WSJ.
