P. N. Furbank,"Misreading Gulliver's Travels," TLS, 10 November, argues that Swift's satirical novel is a defense of humanity.

Duncan Wu,"Fitting that thy secrets be sung," THE, 11 November, reviews R. S. White's John Keats: A Literary Life.

The National Archives exhibit,"Discovering the Civil War," appears in two parts. ‘Part One: Beginning' opened on 30 April and was reviewed by Edward Rothstein. ‘Part Two: Consequences' opened yesterday and is reviewed by Philip Kennicott.

Stephen Wade reviews Hugh Gault's Living History: A Family's 19th Century for the THE, 11 November.

Amanda Foreman,"Antonia Fraser on Her Wild Marriage," Daily Beast, 8 November, reviews the historian's memoir of her marriage to Harold Pinter.