- Anthony Grafton, writing in the Daily Princetonian, compares the renovations at Princeton's Firestone Library with with the planned changes at the NYPL Central Branch.
- Exciting news from Boston this week: Skinner, Inc. announced the appointment of Devon Gray its Director of Fine Books and Manuscripts.
- I like Eric Johnson's post on the Scholars' Lab blog this week, in which he offers a definition of what he's calling "open humanities," - "those aspects of the humanities aimed at democratizing production and consumption of humanities research."
- The inaugural issue of the Journal of Digital Humanities is now ready for our reading enjoyment. I'm very much looking forward to digging in.
- Via @DaelNorwood, a visualization of British, Dutch, and Spanish shipping for the period 1750-1800.
Reviews
- Thomas Penn's Winter King; review by Miranda Seymour in the NYTimes.
- The Selected Letters of Charles Dickens (ed. Jenny Hartley); review by Nicholas Delbanco in the LATimes.
- Elaine Pagels' Revelations; review by Dale B. Martin in the NYTimes.
- E.O. Wilson's The Social Conquest of Earth; review by Matt Gazzaniga in the WSJ.
- Lauren Groff's Arcadia; review by John Wilwol in the NYTimes.
