Midweek Notes

Drake Bennett,"The origins of a holy book," Boston Globe, 28 March, introduces Corpus Coranicum, a new project at Germany's Berlin-Brandenberg Academy of Sciences. It will foster critical scholarship about the Koran.

Laura Edwards reviews James Shapiro's Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare? for Salon, 28 March. Jennifer Howard,"A Shakespeare Scholar Takes on a 'Taboo' Subject," CHE, 28 March, discusses Shapiro's new book, with the author.

Donald Morrison,"The Dreyfus Affair," Financial Times, 27 March, reviews Louis Begley's Why the Dreyfus Affair Matters, Frederick Brown's For the Soul of France: Culture Wars in the Age of Dreyfus, and Bertrand Tillier's Les artistes et l'affaire Dreyfus, 1898-1908.