Thursday's Notes
Carol Vogel,"By the Hand of a Very Young Master?" NYT, 12 May, reports on Fort Worth's Kimbell Art Museum's purchase of what may be the earliest known work by Michelangelo.
At Airminded, our colleague, Brett Holman, has launched a series of posts about mysterious aerial visitors in the nights skies over Great Britain in 1909.
Colm Tóibín,"Follow-the-Leader," LRB, 14 May, reviews Thomas Travisano and Saskia Hamilton, eds., Words in Air: The Complete Correspondence between Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell.
Dwight Gardner,"An American Writer, Coming of Age in Oxford," NYT, 12 May, and Michael Dirda,"Friends and Other Characters," Washington Post, 14 May, review Reynolds Price's memoir of his early years at Oxford, Ardent Spirits: Leaving Home, Coming Back.
Erik Eckholm,"Secret Memoir Offers Look Inside China's Politics," NYT, 14 May, and John Pomfret,"Secret Memoir Reveals Dissent by Chinese Leader," Washington Post, 14 May, announce the publication next week of Zhao Ziyang's Prisoner of the State: The Secret Journal of Premier Zhao Ziyang.
Richard Posner,"Is the Conservative Movement Losing Steam?" The Becker-Posner Blog, 10 May, argues that the late 20th century's intellectual movement is over.