Modern History Notes

Greg Lukianoff,"College Students Can't Say 'Sissies' Anymore? Yale Goes for Old-Timey Censorship Against F. Scott Fitzgerald Quote," HuffPo, 21 December, protests censorship at Yale.

Mark Noll,"Jefferson's America," Books & Culture, January, reviews Gordon Wood's Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815.

Ron Charles reviews Sheila Kohler's Becoming Jane Eyre for the Washington Post, 23 December.

Stephen Shapin,"The Darwin Show," LRB, 7 January, is an essay looking back on the conference, exhibition, and literary production occasioned by the 200th anniversary of Darwin's birth and 150th anniversary of the publication of The Origin of the Species.

David Yaffe,"Misterioso," Nation, 22 December, reviews Robin D. G. Kelley's Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original.

Barry Gewen,"One Man's Survival Strategy in a Chinese Labor Camp: To Write," NYT, 20 December, reviews Er Tai Gao's In Search of My Homeland: A Memoir of a Chinese Labor Camp, translated by Robert Dorsett and David Pollard.

Phil Nugent,"The Oral Tradition," The Phil Nugent Experience, 16 December, is the obituary of Oral Roberts we've been awaiting. Hat tip.