- Tests have reportedly authenticated the Grolier Codex as a genuine 13th-century Maya codex.
- The NEDCC has posted about its work on the preparations for the upcoming cross-institutional exhibition of illuminated manuscripts in Boston.
- Over at Past is Present, a new list of recent articles and books by members of the AAS community.
- And via the ABAA, a roundup of recent bookseller catalogs.
- Thirty-five porters and three auctioneers employed by French auction house Hotel Drouot have been sentenced for the theft of numerous artifacts over several years.
- A four-page portion of the manuscript of Napoleon's "novella" will be sold at Bonhams New York on 21 September.
- From the First Impressions blog, some interesting finds in the Exeter Book revealed by multi-spectral imaging.
- Adam Hooks and Dan De Simone talk about the First Folio's rise to the status of cultural icon in a Folger "Shakespeare Unlimited" podcast.
- UVA Today profiles John Unsworth, new university librarian and dean of libraries.
- Alexandra Kiely has a short piece on the Fortsas hoax for the Biblio.com blog.
- The winners of the 2016 National Collegiate Book Collecting awards have been announced.
- Artdaily.org reports on Forum Auctions' "new type of finance deal to help a collector acquire an £850,000 Shakespeare First Folio."
- Sarah Larimer reports for the Washington Post on UNH library cataloger Robert Morin, who left an estate of $4 million to the university.
- The 2017 Boston Book Fair will be held on 10–12 November.
Reviews
- "Charlotte Brontë: An Independent Will," at the Morgan Library; review by William Grimes in the NYTimes.
- Ruth Scurr's John Aubrey: My Own Life; review by Dwight Garner in the NYTimes.
- Anthony Gottlieb's The Dream of Enlightenment; review by Michael Wood in the NYTimes.
- James Gleick's Time Travel; review by Rosalind Williams in the WaPo.
- Alan Taylor's American Revolutions; reviews by Gordon S. Wood in the NYTimes and Eric Herschthal in Slate.
- Brian Vickers' The One King Lear; review by Holger S. Syme in the LARB. Wow.
