More Noted Things

A comment on the new meaning of religious diversity: In all the controversy about the choice of clergy to offer prayers at the Obama inauguration, has anyone noticed that all of them are Protestants? In the rush to represent gay and straight, male and female, Religious Right and not-so-Right, there are no Roman Catholic, Jewish, Eastern Orthodox or Muslim clergy among the select.

Sino-Japanese Studies was published in hard copy from 1988-2003. It is now digitized, its publication is renewed as an e-journal and it invites submissions.

Paul Lay, editor of History Today, launches his blog with assessments of two new books on the English Civil War, John Adamson, ed., The English Civil War and Blair Worden's The English Civil Wars, 1640-1660.

Edmund White,"Teenage Dirtbag," Guardian, 10 January, is excerpted from White's Rimbaud: The Double Life of a Rebel.

Louis P. Masur,"The American Character," CHE, 16 January, reviews Simon Schama's The American Future: A History.

Johann Hari,"Move Over, Thoreau," Slate, 12 January, reviews Bill McKibben, ed., American Earth: Environmental Writing Since Thoreau.

Maggy O'Farrell,"Climbing the walls," Guardian, 9 January, is an excerpt from O'Farrell's introduction to a new edition of Charlotte Perkins Gilman's The Yellow Wallpaper.

Caleb Crain,"There Was Blood," New Yorker, 19 January, reviews Thomas G. Andrews's Killing for Coal: America's Deadliest Labor War and Scott Martelle's Blood Passion: The Ludlow Massacre and Class War in the American West. See also: Crain's"Notebook: The Ludlow Massacre Revisited," Steamboats Are Ruining Everything, 12 January.