Our Houses, Our Selves
A new crop of books suggests that for women, obsession with real estate is replacing obsession with love and marriage.
Book Review
New Fiction
A guide to spring and summer releases
The Dark Side of Dickens
Why Charles Dickens was among the best of writers and the worst of men
Getting Their Guns Off
The books that shaped HBO’s The Pacific give the lie to the notion of generational exceptionalism.
Monster of Marriage
Henry de Montherlant’s work displays the charms of a black-hearted misogynist.
The Men Who Made England
Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall is a service to the history it depicts, and puts the author in the very first rank of historical novelists.
The Catastrophist
The haunting science fiction of J.G. Ballard
Cultivating Failure
How school gardens are cheating our most vulnerable students
On Being a Bad Mother
True confessions
The Pity of War
Is leading one’s own troops to slaughter ever justified?