My last two columns (Oct. 10, Nov. 14) concerned nonfiction’s contribution to the literature and law conversation. I started with Daniel Menaker’s memoir, “My Mistake,” which has less to do with legal geography and vocabulary (indeed, his memoir, aside from one story about giving deposition testimony, has virtually nothing legal whatever) than it has to do with awareness of self in the bewildering fabric of life, in family and work and world. Then I wrote about the story of “Antonio …