Weekend reading: on Christmas trees, John Lennon and Saul Steinberg

Our latest book reviews:

• The People of Forever Are Not Afraid, by Shani Boianjiu,  review by Andrew Stobo Sniderman

• The John Lennon Letters, edited and with an introduction by Hunter Davies, review by Mike Doherty

• Inventing the Christmas Tree, by Bernd Brunner, review by Brian Bethune

• Saul Steinberg: A Biography, by Deirdre Bair, review by Sarah Murdoch

• A Man of Misconceptions: The Life of an Eccentric in an Age of Change, by John Glassie, review by Colby Cosh