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"I thought you were all dead. Didn't the gas ovens finish you all off"" In After the War, this is the welcome a Jewish teenager, Ruth, receives from her now-dead family's former maid, who, Ruth notices, is wearing one of Mother's dresses. It is 1945, and...

Michel Houellebecq—the balding bad boy of French letters—has always written himself into his novels, giving his main characters his sad, unusual upbringing (his parents abandoned him and left him to be raised by his grandmother), his marital history, aspects of his employment history and even,...

Michel Houellebecq—the balding bad boy of French letters—has always written himself into his novels, giving his main characters his sad, unusual upbringing (his parents abandoned him and left him to be raised by his grandmother), his marital history, aspects of his employment history and even,...

Essay discusses the novel of "Daniel's Story" by Carol Matas.