James Wolcott

Before 2013 begins, catch up on the best of 2012. From now until the New Year, we will be re-posting some of The New Republic’s most thought-provoking pieces of the year. Enjoy. Lionel Asbo: State of England By Martin Amis (Knopf, 255 pp., $25.95) READ MORE >>

The Fatal Handjob

Indignation By Philip Roth (Houghton Mifflin, 236 pp., $26) READ MORE >>

Smugged by Reality

Through the Children’s Gate: A Home in New York By Adam Gopnik (Alfred A. Knopf, 336 pp., $25) READ MORE >>

Meow Mix

Mommy Wars: Stay-at-Home and Career Moms Face Off on Their Choices, Their Lives, Their Families Edited by Leslie Morgan Steiner (Random House, 336 pp.,$24.95) To Hell With All That: Loving and Loathing Our Inner Housewife By Caitlin Flanagan (Little, Brown, 244 pp., $22.95) Get to Work: A Manifesto for Women of the World By Linda R. Hirshman (Viking, 101 pp., $19.95) I. READ MORE >>

Yada Yada Yada

Story of My Life By Jay McInerney (Atlantic Monthly Press, $16.95) READ MORE >>

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