New novel from Emily St. John Mandel (Station Eleven): Exit Party. “Los Angeles, 2031: The first spring after the collapse of the United States, peacekeeping troops withdraw from the city, the Jacaranda trees blossom, and the curfew is finally lifted.”

NEW YORK (ANP) - De beurzen in New York zijn vrijdag overwegend hoger gesloten. Beleggers beleefden een bewogen handelsweek waarin de Amerikaanse Federal Reserve de rente voor het eerst in drie jaar verhoogde. De rente op tienjarige Amerikaanse staatsobligaties liep ook weer op na een korte daling, door speculatie dat de hoge energiekosten inflatie kunnen aanwakkeren. Dat zou kunnen leiden tot een nieuwe renteverhoging van de Fed.

Nike was een van de verliezers op de beurs in New York. Het Amerikaanse sportmerk zag de Franse topvoetballer Kylian Mbappé vertrekken. Hij wordt het nieuwe boegbeeld van het Zwitserse sportmerk On, dat nu vooral in het hardlopen en tennis zit. De 27-jarige spits van Real Madrid was al sinds zijn negende verbonden aan Nike. Nike verloor ruim 2 procent.

De Dow-Jonesindex zakte 0,2 procent tot 51.682,64 punten. De brede S&P 500-index won 0,2 procent tot 7650,50 punten en techgraadmeter Nasdaq steeg 0,4 procent tot 26.522,55 punten.

Manchester City continued their winning start to the new Women’s Super League season but the defending champions needed a 90th-minute own goal from Grace Fisk to help them edge past an ever-improving Liverpool side after an entertaining game in which Lauren Hemp scored twice.

Fisk inadvertently turned Grace Clinton’s dangerous cross into her own net to put City 3-2 up and then – with Liverpool searching for an equaliser and committing players forward deep in stoppage time – Hemp added another on the counterattack to make it 4-2 and widen the margin of victory, but that slightly masked how well the visitors had played. Gareth Taylor – taking on his former side – will have taken significant encouragement from his Liverpool team’s performance, on a night when they made the league leaders dig deep.

Internet Archive has the first few pages of a reprint of this Batman Grimoire which says:

The Doome is Batman's translation and amplification of Conrad Lycosthenes' Prodigiorum ac Ostentorom Chronicon (1557). In his Epistle Dedicatory Batman calls his book a "collection, translation, and interpretation." [...] His chief addenda are [...] a brief catalogue of illustrious and noble women which concludes with a prayer for the preservation of the noble and most illustrious Elizabeth. [...] In illustrating his book, Batman employed almost ninety wood-cuts, a few of which were copied from Lycosthenes.

Some of the illustrations from The Doome are here and they are wild:

But it sounds like Batman only cribbed some of those from Lycosthenes, and those are pretty good too: Though Prodigiorum has a lot of repeated illustrations. A lot.

There's a reprint of The Doome on eBay, but it's $500. (And people say I'm hard to shop for...)

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