In the popular imagination, London is ever foggy the way Seattle is ever wet, and while neither association withstands scrutiny, movies will insist upon socking London with heavy mist and Seattle with ...

CAPITAL, by John Lanchester. W.W. Norton & Co., 527 pages, $26.95. "Capital" comes to us as a novel of ambition in every sense of the term. It's a book whose characters are full of ambitions, from the ...

But Capital’s actually set on a road not a street, which had Lanchester paying apposite homage to another assiduous chronicler of London’s diversity, diarist Samuel Pepys. The action of this opening ...

In his latest state-of-the-nation novel, Capital, John Lanchester tells the story of an ordinary street in the capital, but also of a global crisis. In this conversation with Hay Festival chair Revel ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...