Coming Apart caps three decades of faux concern for the poor.
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Charles Murray, the Long View
In 1984, the right’s star public intellectual wrote the book that drove welfare reform. Coming Apart is an alibi for his own failed big idea.
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Adrienne Rich, Poet of Change
Few literary luminaries succeed in melding a passion for social justice with a love of language.
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The Making of a Madman
A.N. Wilson’s new biography explains how losing money, mother, and mind created Hitler.
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Barbarians at the Transom
Lionel Shriver’s The New Republic is a provocative and satiric novel about—of all things—terrorism.Â
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Hell’s Belles
Tracking the teen heroines of the new dystopian thrillers
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A Nightstick Turned into a Song
Two new books and a documentary cue up the soundtrack of the black-power movement.
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The Republican Socialist
A new biography shows that Dwight Eisenhower was a more cunning and active president than he gets credit for.Â
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The Part of Silence That Can Be Spoken
Jeanette Winterson’s fairy-tale search for a mother
