Things Noted Here & There

Andrew Holgate,"Behind closed doors," London's Sunday Times, 30 May, reviews Bill Bryson's At home: A Short History of Private Life.

Dwight Garner,"Looking for a ‘New' Narrative of Founding Fathers," NYT, 30 May, reviews Jack Rakove's Revolutionaries: A New History of the Invention of America.

Valerie Grove reviews Edmund de Waal's The Hare with Amber Eyes: A Hidden Inheritance for London's TimesOnline, 29 May.

Bill Littlefield,"Eyes on the prize," Boston Globe, 30 May, reviews Chuck Korr's and Marvin Close's More Than Just A Game: Soccer vs. Apartheid: The Most Important Soccer Story Ever Told.

Ashley Sayeau reviews Elaine Tyler May's America and the Pill: A History of Promise, Peril, and Liberation for the Washington Post, 30 May.

Anthony Lewis,"A Supreme Difference," NYRB, 10 June, reviews Joan Biskupic's American Original: The Life and Constitution of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia and Bill Barnhart's and Gene Schlickman's John Paul Stevens: An Independent Life. Hat tip.