More Modern Notes

Scott Jaschik,"Larry Kramer Questions Gay Studies," IHE, 28 April, discusses Kramer's"Yale's Conspiracy of Silence," Daily Beast, 24 April, with scholars in the field.

Robert Service reviews Tristram Hunt's The Frock-Coated Communist: The Revolutionary Life of Friedrich Engels for the Sunday Times, 26 April.

George Scialabba,"Only Words: Liberalism, Past and Future," The Nation, 11 May, reviews Jedediah Purdy's A Tolerable Anarchy: Rebels, Reactionaries, and the Making of American Freedom and Alan Wolfe's The Future of Liberalism.

Daniel Mallory,"Who Stole the Mona Lisa?" Washington Post, 26 April, reviews R.A. Scotti's Vanished Smile: The Mysterious Theft of Mona Lisa and Dorothy and Thomas Hoobler's The Crimes of Paris: A True Story of Murder, Theft, and Detection.

Sam Kean,"Where's Our Scapegoat?" Slate, 27 April, reviews Frank Partnoy's The Match King: Ivar Kreuger, The Financial Genius Behind a Century of Wall Street Scandals.