Originally posted August 14, 2020. Converted to new blog August 4th, 2023.

• NYTimes’s verson of DecamerOnline, as reported in their podcast, The Daily: https://nyti.ms/32byK9I

• Jake Soll on parallels between our current pandemic and the Black Death in Trecento Florence:   https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/07/25/can-america-benefit-from-covid-ask-14th-century-florence-381130

• Vanessa Schwartz’s thoughts on travel in the pandemic as it relates to the Jet Age she explores in her new book:  https://www.harun-farocki-institut.org/en/2020/03/30/is-the-jet-age-over-jvc-hafi-1/

• On Brigitte Benkemoun’s newly translated book about a small address book she bought on Ebay that — it turned out– was Dora Maar:  http://blogs.getty.edu/iris/podcast-finding-dora-maar-a-surrealist-story-told-through-an-address-book/

• Henry Jenkins’ new book, Comics and Stuff