Modern History Notes

Serena Golden,"Piracy," IHE, 3 February, interviews the University of Chicago's Adrian Johns about his new book, Piracy: The Intellectual Property Wars from Gutenberg to Gates.

Katherine Bouton,"Tale of an Unsung Fossil Finder, in Fact and Fiction," NYT, 1 February, reviews Shelly Emling's The Fossil Hunter: Dinosaurs, Evolution and the Woman Whose Discoveries Changed the World and Tracy Chevalier's Remarkable Creatures.

Nicholas Shrimpton,"Tennyson now," TLS, 27 January, reviews Robert Douglas-Fairhurst and Seamus Perry, eds., Tennyson Among the Poets.

Nathan Perl-Rosenthal,"In And Out Of History," The Book, 2 February, reviews Jean-Marie Apostolides's The Metamorphosis of Tintin or Tintin for Adults and Pierre Assouline's Herge: The Man Who Created Tintin.

Anthony Daniels,"Ayn Rand: engineer of souls," New Criterion, February, reviews Ann C. Heller's Ayn Rand and the World She Made.

Dwight Garner,"A Woman's Undying Gift to Science," NYT, 2 February, reviews Rebecca Skloot's The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks; and Denise Grady,"A Lasting Gift to Medicine That Wasn't Really a Gift," NYT, 1 February, takes another look at Lacks's contribution to biological engineering.

Jack Goldsmith,"The Accountable Presidency," TNR, 1 February, reviews John Yoo's Crisis and Command: A History of Executive Power from George Washington to George W. Bush and Garry Wills's Bomb Power: The Modern Presidency and the National Security State. Rick Perlstein,"The American Atom," bookforum, February/March, reviews Wills's Bomb Power.