Last year, I noted the return of Philip Rieff, a brilliant and broadly conservative thinker about whom it can justly be said that he is both enormously influential and relatively neglected. Rieff has since died, but his multi-volume late-life opus is coming out posthumously. Elizabeth Lasch-Quinn has an excellent review of the first volume of Rieff’s My Life Among the Deathworks in the current issue of The New Republic. (may be restricted to subscribers) Lasch-Quinn’s piece also serves as an overview of all of Rieff’s books. As I explained in my 2005 post, Rieff is not for everyone. But for a thoughtful quick take on his life’s work, Lasch-Quinn’s essay is well worth a read.