By all appearances, George Orwell and Evelyn Waugh had little in common. David Lebedoff argues the opposite case.

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In his poetry as in his criticism, Adam Kirsch upholds the values of traditional form.

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In 19th-century military interventions, Gary J. Bass sees lessons that might be used to confront humanitarian crises today.

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According to Dagmar Herzog, Christian leaders have embraced a new role as cheerleaders for sex — at least the marital kind.

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Pigeons flutter between wildness and domestication. Courtney Humphries explains how they became part of the city?s natural environment.

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Daniel J. Levitin proposes that humans have been shaped by a ?soundtrack of civilization.?

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The pollster John Zogby shares his predictions for the future of American culture and values.

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In Rose Tremain?s latest novel, a jobless Russian widower travels to London, seeking a way to start again.

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Bob Moser says that for too long, Democrats have taken the wrong approach to Southern politics.

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The life of this novel?s heroine — a first lady who comes to realize that she has compromised her youthful ideals — is conspicuously modeled on that of Laura Bush.

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Brenda Wineapple explores the friendship of Emily Dickinson and Thomas Wentworth Higginson.

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Stephen Hawking said when something falls into a black hole, all its information is lost. To one academic, that sounded like curtains for quantum mechanics.

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A year in the life of a mom — the performance artist Sandra Tsing Loh.

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An American journalist reports on her adventures navigating that exotic island nation: Britain.

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Paul Theroux retraces the journey that established his career.

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A novel from 1969 comes as a box of unbound sheaves, giving the reader a sense of the fragile experiences it contains.

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Kenneth M. Pollack advocates a generation-long commitment to promote reform in the Middle East, on a scale with America?s postwar involvement in Europe.

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Hanif Kureishi?s pallid new novel considers middle-age alienation and lust in immigrant London.

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How to steer people toward healthier, more prosperous lives, with a little help from the powers that be.

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A foreign correspondent recounts the history of the Kurds.

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This old-fashioned primer on literature from the esteemed critic James Wood concentrates on the art of the novel.

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The hero, horribly burned in a car crash, is nursed back to health by a woman who claims they were lovers in another life.

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The sociologist Charles Tilly examines how we assign responsibility.

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Anna Winger?s American heroine falls in love with Berlin and one of its inhabitants.

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Linn Ullmann?s novel concerns the mingled fates of a powerful father and his three daughters.

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