From today’s NYTimes: a mildly interesting travel piece "in search of Graham Greene’s Capri". Mildly interesting because although Greene spent quite a bit of time there, doing the bulk of his writing there from the 40’s on, the place never actually factored into his work as a region of GreeneLand.

The WaPo Magazine cover story this week, profiling Ruth Lubic, an 80-year old nurse-midwife/activist who has devoted herself to making quality midwife care available to poor women. Her DC clinic is threatened by  never-ending skyrocketing insurance costs. Of course.

This week’s edition of the BBC4’s In Our Time is a good, basic, context-setting treatment of the Siege of Orleans. Well worth a listen – it’s available until Wednesday.