Things Noted Here & There

Sally Jenkins,"Waiting for William," Washington Post, 30 August, revisits the controversy over whether the recently discovered Cobbe portrait is of William Shakespeare.

Caleb Crain,"Bootylicious," New Yorker, 7 September, reviews Peter T. Leeson's The Invisible Hook: The Hidden Economics of Pirates. Crain's"Notebook: The Golden Age of Piracy," Steamboats are ruining everything, 30 August, is a valuable bibliographical essay.

Winston Groom,"The Torching of Atlanta," WSJ, 28 August, reviews Marc Wortman's The Bonfire and Russell S. Bonds's War Like the Thunderbolt.

Sam Tanenhaus,"In Kennedy, the Last Roar of the New Deal Liberal," NYT, 28 August, argues that Edward Kennedy's death marks the end of an American political tradition.