In The Guardian Kate Figes has her entertaining annual feature, , in which she: "asks publishers about the books they wish they'd bagged and those that should have done better".

points me to Heather Hartley's at Tin House. Good news: Europa Editions will (finally) be bringing out her first work, the very enjoyable Hygiène de l'assassin. (See also the complete review -page.)

The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of the medieval Latin , translated and with commentary by Jan M. Ziolkowski. Amazingly enough, that's the first originally-written-in-Latin text reviewed at the complete review.

at the Complete Review

Women smashing rocks in search of silver, Potosí, Bolivia, 1991 (Stuart Franklin/Magnum Photos) For whatever reason—global warming seems to be one—Bolivia's Chacaltaya glacier, whose runoff provided water for the contiguous cities of La Paz and El Alto for centuries, .