As word gets out about Yale University Press' censoring and refusing to print  the Danish Mohammed cartoons in a book about the incident, "The Cartoons that Shook the World,"other authors are rethinking their commitment to having their own work published by that publishing house. Bravely putting her money where her mouth is, poet and translator Sarah Ruden has "already banned the Press from bidding on further books of mine." Although they published her translation of the Aeneid she decided to take this step, she explains in a letter to the editor of the New Criterion, becauseThis is, first of all, a self-protective move. I don't think there's any coffee good enough that I'd enjoy being told over it that my finished, fully edited manuscript is going to be neutered because of a report I'm not allowed to see without swearing secrecy. Since I write about politics and religion, such a scene is a likely danger for me. (snip) Yale Press, after breaking a...(Read Full Post)