Matthew Reynolds,"Edwardians on display," TLS, 30 November, reviews Morna O'Neill and Michael Hart, eds., The Edwardian Sense: Art design and performance in Britain, 1901–1910 and Richard Ormond's and Elaine Kilmurray's John Singer Sargeant: Volume Five: Figures and Landscapes, 1883–1899.

Michael Dirda,"H. L. Mencken at full throttle," TLS, 29 November, reviews H. L. Mencken's Prejudices, ed. by Marion Rogers.

Philip Kennicott,"The Fool of Chance," The Book, 2 December, reviews Kenneth Silverman's Begin Again: A Biography of John Cage.

Patricia Duncker,"Romain a clef," Literary Review, December, reviews David Bellos's Romain Gary: A Tall Story.

Simon Sebag Montefiore,"Hell Frozen Over," Literary Review, December, reviews Fyodor Vasilevich Mochulsky's Gulag Boss: A Soviet Memoir, Deborah Kaple, ed. and trans.

Diana Athill,"Ars Memoria," Literary Review, December, reviews Tony Judt's The Memory Chalet,"... simultaneously awe-inspiring and almost too painful to bear."