Tell Your Children: The Truth About Marijuana, Mental Illness, and Violence by alex berenson free press, 272 pages, $26 The smoking of marijuana, with its careful preparation of the elements and the solemn passing around of the shared joint, was the unholy communion of the counterculture . . . . Continue Reading »
Michel Houellebecq: Many Americans probably don’t know that a Pentecostal movement exists in France. I became aware of it when I was living in Paris near the Porte de Montreuil, at that time a poor neighborhood with a lot of recent immigrants. Drawn by posters, I went to several meetings, some led . . . . Continue Reading »
Regretting Motherhood: A Study by orna donath north atlantic, 272 pages, $15.95 In March, a self-help author tweeted that whereas he once intended to have many children, now, after putting in a few years on his first, he had decided that one was enough, and more than enough, and if he had it . . . . Continue Reading »
In the early 1880s, Henry James set out to write “a very American tale.” The result was The Bostonians, serialized in a magazine in 1885 and then published in a single volume in 1886. The novel features activist meetings, conversations sprinkled with references to the cause of women’s . . . . Continue Reading »
Buying Gay: How Physique Entrepreneurs Sparked a Movement by david k. johnson columbia, 328 pages, $32 How did the gay liberation movement, so radical in the Stonewall days, come to make peace with corporate America? Conventional wisdom has it that after Stonewall, corporate and consumerist . . . . Continue Reading »
Les Murray's work helped raise his nation's poetry to a level of global importance. Continue Reading »
Israel Folau may be brave—or very foolish—but he is not a representative of historic Christianity. Continue Reading »
Unplanned has flaws as a film, but it is a compelling indictment of Planned Parenthood. Continue Reading »
Everyone agrees that there are some things money can’t buy. We should be just as sure that there are some questions calculators can’t answer. Continue Reading »
Something essential to Andrew Klavan the writer animates Klavan the political satirist. Continue Reading »
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