Published on Tuesday 19 August 2008 .

(illustration from Allyn Jackson’s “Comme Appelé du Néant— As If Summoned from the Void: The Life of Alexandre Grothendieck”, Notices of the AMS, vol. 51, no. 10, November 2004.)

(Joseph Brent’s Charles Sanders Peirce: A Life, p. 309.)

(Caravaggio, Musei Capitolini, Rome, 1594.)

(attributed to Desiderio, Young Deacon (St. Lawrence or St. Leonard?), ca. 1455–60, San Lorenzo, Florence.)
Published on Tuesday 6 November 2007 .

(p. 69 of the New York Public Library’s copy of W. H. Auden & Louis MacNeise’s Letters from Iceland.)
Published on Wednesday 29 August 2007 .

(Antonello da Messina, The Dead Christ Supported by an Angel, 1475–9, Prado.)
Published on Wednesday 15 August 2007 .

(p.216 of the Queens Public Library’s copy of John Dewey’s Reconstruction in Philosophy.)
Published on Saturday 11 August 2007 .

(Cover of 1972 Penguin edition of Barth’s Lost in the Funhouse, design by Eduardo Paolozzi. Noted in the 3 August 2007 issue of the Times Literary Supplement, p.32.)

(Henri Rousseau, Eclaireurs attaqués par un tigre, 1904.)