Julian Baggini,"Pure Genius," FT, 10 December, reviews Andrew Robinson's Sudden Genius? The Gradual Path to Creative Breakthroughs, David Shenk's The Genius in All of Us: Why Everything You've Been Told About Genetics, Talent and Intelligence is Wrong, Robert Uhlig's Genius of Britain: The Scientists Who Changed the World, and Peter Watson's The German Genius: Europe's Third Renaissance, the Second Scientific Revolution and the Twentieth Century.

Charles Isherwood,"Theatrical Stumbles of Historic Proportions," NYT, 10 December, finds New York's three current historically based dramatic productions are drawing limited audiences.

Sam Roberts,"Papers Show U.S. Recruited Ex-Nazis," NYT, 11 December, highlights findings in Richard Breitman and Norman J. W. Goda, Hitler's Shadow: Nazi War Criminals, US Intelligence, and the Cold War, which is published by the National Archives.

David Leonhardt,"From Hobby to Industry," NYT, 10 December, reviews Tim Wu's The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires.

David Lan reviews Patrick Wilcken's Claude Lévi-Strauss: The Poet in the Laboratory for the Guardian, 4 December.