Notable reviews that have recently run elsewhere:

Thomas Mallon on Christopher Buckley’s memoir about his famous, recently deceased parents. . . . Michael Ybarra calls Alec Wilkinson’s biography of Pete Seeger, who recently celebrated his 90th birthday, “a slight, lionizing and ultimately unsatisfying book” that lets the protest singer off the hook too easily. . . . The New Republic collects several reviews written by and about Nabokov for the magazine. . . . David Horspool considers a new biography of Tom Waits, “more a meditation on Waits’s work than his life.” . . . George Eaton reviews Voodoo Histories, David Aaronovitch’s analysis of conspiracy theories, the “one guaranteed growth industry” even in tough economic times. . . . Judith Thurman reviews a “serious academic reconsideration” of Helen Gurley Brown, the longtime editor of Cosmopolitan. . . . Jane Ciabattari admires Colson Whitehead’s latest.