Brideshead Is Not Revisited
Randy Boyagoda reviews The Sparsholt Affair, by Alan Hollinghurst.
On the Run
In Aslam’s rendering, present-day Pakistan just might be the world-historical capital of fatalism.
The iFranzen
The publication of a new Jonathan Franzen novel has a lot in common with the release of a new iPhone: Both early-autumn events are greeted with absurd amounts of anticipation, ...
The Great Calvinist American Novel
Were he alive today, John Calvin wouldn’t be the first person I would invite to most book clubs. It’s hard to imagine he’d approve of the characteristic goings-on: the overemphasis ...
Kafka in the Middle Kingdom
Early in Les Misérables, Victor Hugo describes an especially cruel kind of torture. A young woman, suspected of heresy, is stripped to the waist and tied to a post. As ...
Godless Continent
The Cube and the Cathedral: Europe, America, and Politics Without God, by George Weigel (Basic, 224 pp., $23)
In his Oration on the Dignity of Man, Renaissance sage Pico della Mirandola ...