{"id":85920,"date":"2015-05-20T08:40:36","date_gmt":"2015-05-20T12:40:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=85920"},"modified":"2015-05-20T10:23:16","modified_gmt":"2015-05-20T14:23:16","slug":"when-nacre-was-lucre-and-other-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2015\/05\/20\/when-nacre-was-lucre-and-other-news\/","title":{"rendered":"When Nacre Was Lucre, and Other News"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_85922\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/motherofpearlbook8.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-85922\" class=\"wp-image-85922\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/motherofpearlbook8.jpg\" alt=\"motherofpearlbook8\" width=\"600\" height=\"783\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/motherofpearlbook8.jpg 649w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/motherofpearlbook8-230x300.jpg 230w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-85922\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">An undated book from the mother-of-pearl craze.<\/p><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>On the cover of a 1598 book, <em>The Herball or Generall Historie of Plantes<\/em>, a historian claims to have found \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/culture\/2015\/may\/19\/shakespeare-writer-claims-discovery-of-only-portrait-made-during-his-lifetime\" target=\"_blank\">the only demonstrably authentic portrait of Shakespeare made in his lifetime<\/a>\u201d; the editor of <em>Country Life<\/em> magazine is calling this \u201cthe literary discovery of the century.\u201d The century, thankfully, is young.<\/li>\n<li>Pause to remember <a href=\"http:\/\/hyperallergic.com\/184914\/the-iridescent-elegance-of-victorian-mother-of-pearl-book-bindings\/\" target=\"_blank\">the garish bookbinding trends of yesteryear<\/a>: \u201cFor a few years in the nineteenth century \u2026 papier-m\u00e2ch\u00e9 books adorned with mother-of-pearl were part of a\u00a0gift book\u00a0fad, wherein a decorative tome of sentimental or religious poetry was bestowed upon a loved one, often around the winter holidays. The text was usually secondary to the gaudy cover, which was decorated to the extreme.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aperture.org\/blog\/chance-and-photography\/\" target=\"_blank\">Is photography merely a matter of chance?<\/a> \u201cBy the end of the nineteenth century, after Kodak has arrived \u2026 much of the role of chance migrates from the processing phase to the moment of exposure. That moment was always prone to chance\u2014in the long exposures of early photography, a dog might wander in a street scene, or a young portrait subject might sneeze and blur the image. But with fast shutters and films, the so-called instantaneous photograph arrives, and chance takes on a new prominence in composition\u2014to the point that even the word <em>composition<\/em> seems questionable.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Everett Fox is translating the Hebrew Bible\u2014a tricky effort, given that the original is rooted in a deeply aural tradition. \u201cI heard it, too. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/books\/page-turner\/tinkering-with-the-word-of-god?mbid=rss\" target=\"_blank\">Short vowels twinkled and long vowels streamed by with showy tails<\/a>. Consonants held crisp and true. The overall effect was of a simultaneously dense and sprawling thing, layered and alive and capable of surprising you. Fox has dedicated his life to giving the Anglophone ear a hint of that Hebrew drama \u2026 [He] uses every poetic means at his disposal: phrase length, line break, puns.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>The glam <small>SAHM<\/small>s (stay-at-home moms, if you\u2019re new to this) of the Upper East Side await <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/05\/17\/opinion\/sunday\/poor-little-rich-women.html?_r=0\" target=\"_blank\">wife bonuses from their husbands<\/a>: \u201cA wife bonus, I was told, might be hammered out in a pre-nup or post-nup, and distributed on the basis of not only how well her husband\u2019s fund had done but her own performance\u2014how well she managed the home budget, whether the kids got into a \u2018good\u2019 school\u2014the same way their husbands were rewarded at investment banks.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the cover of a 1598 book, The Herball or Generall Historie of Plantes, a historian claims to have found \u201cthe only demonstrably authentic portrait of Shakespeare made in his lifetime\u201d; the editor of Country Life magazine is calling this \u201cthe literary discovery of the century.\u201d The century, thankfully, is young. 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