Sunday's Notes

Andreas Hess reviews Robert Darnton's The Case for Books: Past, Present, and Future for THE, 10 December.

Alex Danchev reviews David Cast's The Delight of Art: Giorgio Vasari and the Traditions of Humanist Discourse for THE, 10 December.

Virginia DeJohn Anderson,"Abigail Adams, Founding Mother," NYT, 10 December, reviews Woody Holton's Abigail Adams.

James Lovegrove,"I see a darkness," Financial Times, 11 December, reviews Peter Straub, ed., American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny, 2 vols., Patrick O'Leary's The Black Heart, and Stephen King's Just After Sunset. See also: Ed Park's"'Another conversation bleeds into yours'," LA Times, 29 November. Hat tip.

Beverly Gage,"He Was No Wilsonian," NYT, 10 December, reviews John Milton Cooper, Jr.'s Woodrow Wilson: A Biography.

Edward Rothstein,"Jung's Inner Universe, Writ Large," NYT, 11 December, reviews"The Red Book of C. G. Jung: Creation of a New Cosmology," an exhibit at the Rubin Museum of Art in Manhattan.

Jascha Hoffman,"Grigori Perelman's Beautiful Mind," NYT, 10 December, reviews Masha Gesson's Perfect Rigor: A Genius and the Mathematical Breakthrough of the Century.