Things Noted Here & There

Elisabetta Povoledo,"Leonardo Unbound: Splitting the Master's Tome to Save His Words," NYT, 8 May, looks at the curatorial problems with Leonardo da Vinci's Codex Atlanticus at Milan's Ambrosiana Library.

Richard Holmes,"The Great de Staël," NYRB, 28 May, reviews Francine du Plessix Gray's Madame de Staël: The First Modern Woman, J. Christopher Herold's Mistress to an Age: A Life of Madame de Staël, Renee Winegarten's Germaine de Staël & Benjamin Constant: A Dual Biography, Angelica Goodden's Madame de Staël: The Dangerous Exile, and Madame de Staël's Corinne, or Italy, trans. by Sylvia Raphael.

Richard Dorment for the Telegraph, 21 April, and Stan Katz for the CHE, 10 May, review"Cezanne and Beyond," an exhibit at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

Bryan Burrough,"Outlaws in Love," NYT, 7 May, reviews Jeff Guinn's Go Down Together: The True, Untold Story of Bonnie and Clyde and Paul Schneider's Bonnie and Clyde: The Lives Behind the Legend.

David Hajdu,"Blues Capitalist," NYT, 7 May, reviews David Robertson's W. C. Handy: The Life and Times of the Man Who Made the Blues.

Gershom Gorenberg,"The War to Begin All Wars," NYRB, 28 May, reviews Benny Morris's 1948: A History of the First Arab-Israeli War, Morris, ed., Making Israel, and Gudrun Krämer's A History of Palestine: From the Ottoman Conquest to the Founding of the State of Israel, trans. by Graham Harman and Gudrun Krämer.