Sunday's Notes
Andrea Wulf,"Bed, Bath and Beyond," NYT, 16 December, reviews Amanda Vickery's Behind Closed Doors: At Home in Georgian England.
Adam Thirwell,"The Animator," TNR, 19 December, reviews Michael Slater's Charles Dickens.
Alex von Tunzelman,"After the War, Before the War," NYT, 16 December, reviews Richard Overy's The Twilight Years: The Paradox of Britain Between the Wars.
Jeanette Winterson,"Patricia Highsmith, Hiding in Plain Sight," NYT, 16 December, reviews Joan Schenkar's The Talented Miss Highsmith: The Secret Life and Serious Art of Patricia Highsmith.
Pete Hamill,"Sugar Ray Robinson, Ultimate Fighter," NYT, 16 December, reviews Wil Haygood's Sweet Thunder: The Life and Times of Sugar Ray Robinson.
Nellie McKay,"The Smart One: John Lennon," NYT, 16 December, reviews Philip Norman's John Lennon: The Life; and Suzanne Vega,"The Cute One: Paul McCartney," NYT, 16 December, reviews Peter Ames Carlin's Paul McCartney: A Life.
Finally, farewell to Yale's historian of American philosophy, John E. Smith; and Paul Berman writes of the loss a year ago of his friend,"John Patrick Diggins, 1935-2009: On friendship and history and loss," TNR, 15 December.