More Noted Things

A. C. Grayling reviews Paul Murdin's Secrets of the Universe: How We Discovered the Cosmos for the Barnes & Noble Review, 17 December.

Steven Levingston reviews Geoffrey Chaucer's ‘The Canterbury Tales: A Retelling' by Peter Ackroyd for the Washington Post, 20 December.

Brooke Allen,"Not only connected," New Criterion, December, reviews Frank Kermode's Concerning E. M. Forster. Hat tip.

Simon Winchester,"A Photo of a Smell and Other Scoops," NYT, 21 December, reviews Harold Evans's My Paper Chase: True Stories of Vanished Times.