Wednesday's Notes

Christopher Ricks,"Keats's Afterlife," NYRB, 11 June, reviews Stanley Plumley's Posthumous Keats: A Personal Biography. See also: Ricks's podcast interview with Giles Harvey about the book.

A. O. Scott,"Holy Mystery! Mayhem at the Vatican," NYT, 15 May, and Ross Douthat,"Dan Brown's America," NYT, 18 May, take on Brown's Angels and Demons.

Michael Wood,"The Myth of Gabriel García Márquez," Slate, 18 May, reviews Gerald Martin's Gabriel García Márquez: A Life.

Dwight Gardner,"Piecing Together That Voice on the Barroom Floor," NYT, 19 May, reviews Barney Hoskyns's Lowside of the Road: A Life of Tom Waits.

The text of"Obama's Commencement Address at Notre Dame," 17 May. E. J. Dionne, Russell Arben Fox, and Hugo Schwyzer comment on it.