- Matthew Kirschenbaum's Rosenbach Lectures are coming up this week in Philadelphia.
- Cambridge University Library is celebrating its 600th anniversary with a physical and online exhibition, "Lines of Thought: Discoveries that Changed the World." Sarah Knapton writes in the Telegraph about the show, focusing on Isaac Newton's copy of his Principia. Maev Kennedy covers the exhibit for the Guardian.
- Two Tel Aviv men have been indicted on charges of burglary, breaking and entering, conspiracy, and trespassing after they broke into the Rambam Library in Tel Aviv and stole 17th-century rabbinical manuscripts.
- The NYTimes editorial board weighs in on the ongoing budgetary battle that threatens the future of the Papers of Abraham Lincoln editorial project.
- Folger curator and RBS faculty member Heather Wolfe is profiled in the WSJ for some of her recent paleographical discoveries.
- Geoffrey Giller writes for the Yale Alumni Magazine about some of the copper plates from Audubon's Birds of America, several of which are at Yale's Peabody Museum.
- Anthropomorphic landscapes are the order of the day at Public Domain Review.
- The second portion of Hugh Selbourne's library was sold at Bonhams London this week; in total, the library realized more than £2.6 million.
- Tess Goodman has a post at Inciting Sparks on the creation of authorial personae, highlighting Elizabeth Gaskell and Walt Whitman.
- The new Common-place is up, and it includes Hilary Wyss on "Eighteenth-Century Letter-Writing and Native American Community."
- Also now available, the March 2016 issue of the AAS Almanac.
- Shakespeare's World is highlighted by Charlotte Salley for The American Scholar.
- The National Archives has released images and a transcription of a letter written by Walt Whitman acting as amanuensis for a dying Civil War soldier. More from Michael Ruane in the WaPo.
- The Boston Globe editorial board argues for changes at the BPL as a new leader is sought.
- Jonathan Guthrie, writing in the Financial Times, explains "Why collecting books can be a deep source of pleasure."
- Emory University has acquired W.E.B. DuBois' copy of David Walker's Appeal.
- Antiquarian bookseller Éamonn de Búrca is profiled in the Irish Times.
- Sarah Minegar is up next in the FB&C "Bright Young Librarians" series.
- From the New Yorker, Daniel Gross on "The Custodian of Forgotten Books."
- Alexander Historical Auctions will sell what's being described as Hitler's own copy of Mein Kampf.
- This week's "On the Media" is all about books, from publishing to theft to industrial bookselling.
- Missed this last month: Greg Cram writes for the NYPL blog on the process they undertook to evaluate the rights status of all those public domain images they released recently.
Reviews
- Anne Boyd Rioux's Constance Fenimore Woolson; review by Wendy Smith in the Boston Globe.
- Elaine Showalter's The Civil Wars of Julia Ward Howe; review by David Hugh Smith in the CSM.
- Austin Reed's The Life and the Adventures of a Haunted Convict; review by Annette Gordon-Reed in the WaPo.
- Eric Burns' The Golden Lad; review by Del Quentin Weber in the WaPo.
- Vanessa Ogle's The Global Transformation of Time; review by Thomas Meaney in the TLS.
- Matthew Kirschenbaum's Track Changes; review in Kirkus Reviews.
- Catherine Lowell's The Madwoman Upstairs; review by Rebecca Rego Barry at FB&C.
