Things Noted Here & There
Judith Shulevitz,"My True Story," NYT, 20 November, reviews Ben Yagoda's Memoir: A History.
Emily Colette Wilkinson reviews Veronica Buckley's The Secret Wife of Louis XIV: Franoise D'Aubigne, Madame de Maintenon for the Washington Times, 15 November.
Alexandra Mullen,"Discovering the Keys to a Musical Past," WSJ, 21 November, reviews Madeline Goold's Mr. Langshaw's Square Piano: The Story of the First Pianos and How They Caused a Cultural Revolution.
Sean Wilentz,"Into the West," NYT, 20 November, reviews Robert W. Merry's A Country of Vast Designs: James K. Polk, the Mexican War, and the Conquest of the American Continent.
Jonathan Yardley,"Forgotten Warrior," Washington Post, 22 November, reviews Joan Waugh's U. S. Grant: American Hero, American Myth.
Elizabeth D. Samet,"A Soldier's Story," NYT, 20 November, reviews James Carl Nelson's The Remains of Company D: A Story of the Great War.
Jeremy Noel-Tod reviews Valerie Eliot and Hugh Haughton, eds., The Letters of TS Eliot, Vol. I, 1898-1922, revised edition, and Eliot and Haughton, eds., Letters of TS Eliot, Vol. II, 1923-1925, for Telegraph, 6 November.
Sally Denton,"'Tricky Dick' vs. the Pink Lady," Daily Beast, 17 November, is an excerpt from Denton's The Pink Lady: The Many Lives of Helen Gahagan Douglas.
Stephen King,"Raymond Carver's Life and Stories," NYT, 19 November, reviews Carol Sklenicka's Raymond Carver: A Writer's Life and William L. Stull and Maureen P. Carroll, eds., Raymond Carver: Collected Stories.