Midweek Notes
Patricia Cohen,"Digital Keys for Unlocking the Humanities' Riches," NYT, 16 November, is the first in a series of Times articles"about how digital tools are changing scholarship in history, literature and the arts." See also: Cohen,"Digitally Mapping the Republic of Letters," ArtsBeat, 16 November.
Michelle Goldberg,"Superwoman," The Book, 16 November, reviews Duane W. Roller's Cleopatra: A Biography and Stacy Schiff's Cleopatra: A Life.
Andrew Graham-Dixon,"Bronzino - Artist & Poet at the Court of the Medici," Telegraph, 22 October, and Roderick Conway Morris,"Bronzino Emerges From Limbo," NYT, 15 November, review"Bronzino: Artist and Poet at the Court of the Medici," an exhibit at Palazzo Strozzi in Florence, Italy.
Eleri Lynn,"Well Rounded," Slate, 16 November, is a slide show on the"history of corsetry, from whalebone to Lycra."
Pass around the popcorn, children, in a broadscale attack on a career's production, Jack Rakove's"Founders Lite," The Book, 15 November, reviews Joseph Ellis's First Family: Abigail and John.
Finally, Vivian Gornick,"The Victim," bookforum, Dec/Jan, reviews Benjamin Taylor, ed., Saul Bellow: Letters; and Scott Saul,"Off Minor," Boston Review, Sept/Oct, reviews Robin D. G. Kelly's Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original.