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  • Friday Notes

    by Cliopatria

    Jonathan Bate,"The mad worlds of Thomas Middleton," TLS, 23 April, reviews Gary Taylor and John Lavagnino, eds., The Complete Works of Thomas Middleton and Taylor and Lavagnino, eds., Thomas Middleton and Early Modern Textual Culture.

    Jared Diamond,"


  • Who leads in the pop vote category?

    by Cliopatria

    The following money quote from Michael Barone's US News column helps clarify the answer to this question.

    Clinton now leads in the popular vote, if you include the Florida and Michigan results, by 121,943 votes. And even if you include the imputed totals for the Iowa, Nevada, Washington, and Maine cauc

  • Not just a colleague, but a mentor: on hiring a new African-Americanist

    by Cliopatria

    As some Cliopatria readers will know, the feminist blogosphere continues to go through an unusually painful period of discussion and debate about race, sex, and intersectionality. And while it really isn't all about me, I find it, if not ironic, oddly serendipitous that this semester finds me on a hiring committee to select a new African-American specialist for a tenure-track position. The first round of interviews unfold this afternoon and tomorrow.

    Confidentiality protocol bars

  • From the Devil's Dictionary

    by Cliopatria

    Past,n. That part of Eternity with some small fraction of which we have a slight and regrettable acquaintance. A moving line called the Present parts it from an imaginary period known as the Future. These two grand divisions of Eternity, of which the one is continually effacing the other, are entirely unlike. The one is dark with sorrow and disappointment, the other bright with prosperity and joy. The Past is the region of sobs; the Future is the realm of song. In the o

  • Wednesday Notes

    by Cliopatria

    Daniel Mendelsohn,"Arms and the Man," New Yorker, 28 April, reviews Robert B. Strassler, ed., The Landmark Herodotus and James Romm's Herodotus.

    Hilary Mantel,"Frocks and Shocks," LRB, 24 April, reviews Julia Fox's Jane Boleyn: The Infamous Lady Rochford.

    Julia Keller,"