20th Century Biographical Notes

Jon Hendley,"I spy Arthur Ransome," Guardian, 13 August, reviews Roland Chambers's The Last Englishman: the Double Life of Arthur Ransome.

Michael Henderson reviews Robin Daniels's Cardus, Celebrant of Beauty: a Memoir for the Telegraph, 10 August.

Adam Kirsch,"Chic Radical," Tablet, 11 August, reviews Barry Seldes's Leonard Bernstein: The Political Life of an American Musician. See also: Alex Ross,"The Bernstein Files," New Yorker, 10 August: Part One, Bernstein and the F.B.I.; Part Two, Bernstein and Nixon's Plumbers; Part Three, Bernstein in the Nixon Tapes.

Dwight Garner,"Writer's Myth Looms as Large as the Many Novels She Wrote," NYT, 11 August, reviews Benjamin Moser's Why This World: A Biography of Clarice Lispector.

Caitlin Flanagan,"Sex and the Married Man," Atlantic, September, reviews Jennifer Scanlon's Bad Girls Go Everywhere: The Life of Helen Gurley Brown.