20th Century Lives

Helen Vendler,"The Plain Sense of Things," NYT, 21 August, reviews Wallace Stevens's Selected Poems, edited by John N. Serio.

Evelyn Toynton,"Unhappy Together: The Wittgenstein Family Feud," Harper's, 21 August, reviews Alexander Waugh's The House of Wittgenstein: A Family at War.

Geoffrey Wheatcroft,"Bread, Wine, Politics," NYT, 21 August, reviews Stanislao G. Pugliese's Bitter Spring: A Life of Ignazio Silone.

A. C. Grayling reviews Graham Farmelo's The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Mystic of the Atom for the Barnes & Noble Review, 24 August.

Jonathan Yardley,"Not in My Back Yard," Washington Post, 23 August, reviews Anthony Flint's Wrestling with Moses: How Jane Jacobs Took on New York's Master Builder and Transformed the American City.

Sarah Halzack,"Surviving Jiabiangou," Washington Post, 23 August, reviews Xianhui Yang's Woman from Shanghai.

Ernie Suggs,"Calley apologizes for My Lai massacre," AJC, 21 August, 500 Viet Namese civilians and 40 years later.

Fernanda Eberstadt,"Untamed Creature," NYT, 19 August, reviews Benjamin Moser's Why This World: A Biography of Clarice Lispector. Blake Evans interviews Moser at Paper Cuts, 21 August.