Sunday's Notes

Tim Rutten reviews Mark Lamster's Master of Shadows: The Secret Diplomatic Career of the Painter Peter Paul Rubens for the LA Times, 2 December.

John Barnard,"Who killed John Keats?" TLS, 2 December, poses a new theory about the poet's death.

Mary Tompkins Lewis,"His Art, His Words," WSJ, 3 December, reviews Leo Jansen, Hans Luijten and Nienke Bakker, eds., Vincent van Gogh—The Letters, 6 volumes; the online edition, Vincent van Gogh, The Letters; and"Van Gogh's Letters," an exhibit at Amsterdam's van Gogh Museum.

Jay Parini reviews The Diaries of Sofia Tolstoy, trans. by Cathy Porter, for the Guardian, 5 December.

Peter Scoblic,"Missile Man," New Republic, 5 December, reviews Neil Sheehan's A Fiery Peace in a Cold War: Bernard Schriever and the Ultimate Weapon.

Nicholas Lemann,"The Power and the Glory," New Yorker, 7 December, reviews Harold Evans's My Paper Chase: True Stories of Vanished Times.