More Noted Things

Ed Caesar,"The bare necessities," London's Sunday Times, 23 May, reviews Philip Carr-Gomm's A Brief History of Nakedness.

Martin Garner,"English as a Juggernaut Conquers the World With Glee and an OMG," NYT, 25 May, and Isaac Chotiner,"Globish For Beginners," New Yorker, 31 May, reviews Robert McCrum's Globish: How the English Language Became the World's Language.

Nick Pitt,"Turfing out the cheats," London's Sunday Times, 23 May, reviews Nicholas Foulkes's Gentlemen and Blackguards: Gambling Mania and the Plot to Steal the Derby of 1844.

Robert Gottlieb,"Who Was Charles Dickens?" NYRB, 10 June, reviews Michael Slater's Charles Dickens, putting it in the context of Dickens biography, Peter Ackroyd's Dickens, John Forster's The Life of Charles Dickens, Edgar Johnson's Charles Dickens: His Tragedy and Triumph, Fred Kaplan's Dickens: A Biography, Slater's Dickens and Women, and Claire Tomalin's The Invisible Woman: The Story of Nelly Ternan and Charles Dickens.

Bryan Appleyard,"Whose life is it anyway?" London's Sunday Times, 23 May, reviews Rebecca Skloot's The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks.

Benjamin Pogrund,"Binding Ties," Tablet, 21 May, reviews Sasha Polakow-Suransky's The Unspoken Alliance: Israel's Secret Relationship With Apartheid South Africa.