Things Noted Here and There

Deborah Lawson's"Historical Research Page" is an extraordinarily rich list of links to Euro/American historical sources, primarily medieval to modern. Hat tip. The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database is"an enlarged and revised edition of the Cambridge 1998 CD-ROM dataset," now free and easier to navigate. It is jointly sponsored by Emory University, the National Endowment for the Humanities, Harvard's W. E. B. Du Bois Institute, the University of Hull, Victoria University of Wellington, and Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro. Thanks to H-Slavery for the tip.

Joan Acocella,"The Forbidden World," New Yorker, 25 August, reviews Ingrid Rowland's Giordano Bruno: Philosopher/Heretic.

Justin Beplate,"Apollinaire and Picasso in the dock," TLS, 30 July, reviews Peter Read's Picasso and Apollinaire: The persistence of memory.

Joanna Kavenna,"Franz Kafka, party animal," Guardian, 17 August, reviews James Hawes's Excavating Kafka.

John Steele Gordon,"Murder Most Rational and Confounding," NYT, 17 August, reviews Simon Baatz's For the Thrill of It: Leopold, Loeb and the Murder That Shocked Chicago.