Word: victorianism
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...pulls out all the stops for "The Crimson Petal and the White" by Michael Faber (Harcourt; September), giving it a starred, boxed review. "Faber's bawdy, brilliant second novel tells an intricate tale of love and ambition and paints a new portrait of Victorian England and its citizens in prose crackling with insight and bravado. Using the wealthy Rackham clan as a focal point for his sprawling, gorgeous epic, Faber, like Dickens or Hardy, explores an era's secrets and social hypocrisy...A marvelous story of erotic love, sin, familial conflicts and class prejudice, this is a deeply entertaining masterwork...
...South End may be the largest preserved Victorian neighborhood in the United States, but its residents exhibit no Victorian reserve whatsoever. Syrians, Italians, Portuguese, Chinese, West Indians, Native Americans, Dominicans and Puerto Ricans converse in a hodgepodge of languages—at one point even considering seceding from the city of Boston to form “Mandela”—before sitting down at the neighborhood block parties or park benches to share food and argument. Wanderers are welcome, surprises guaranteed...
...another, and then another. As I panted upward, suddenly the van whirred into sight. Did I want a lift after all? Please! That night, after some exhilarating seaside riding, I dined on fresh scallops at a trendy Lunenburg restaurant and slept tucked into an antique four-poster in a Victorian...
...viewers, where skirmishes were fought with tittle-tattle about the Windsors. "The main change of the last 50 years is that the monarchy has become absorbed into, embroiled with, the culture of celebrity," says John Baxendale, a cultural historian at Sheffield Hallam University. The royals could not have remained Victorian icons; they had to find their footing in a media age. But the progress they made was undermined by scandal, especially through the mutual loathing of Charles and Diana. The public snapped it up, ogling the juicy parts while clucking disapprovingly about the "terrible decline in standards." This...
Berlin runs one of the largest such programs in the nation. Since 1991 hundreds of pedophiles have gone to the creaky Victorian building that houses his clinic. Berlin sees their condition as similar to alcoholism--incurable but treatable--and some of his methods sound similar to those of Alcoholics Anonymous. The pedophiles must admit their urges and confront them in group therapy. Counselors help them restructure their lives so that they don't come into contact with children. Berlin prescribes medication to reduce sex drives for the 30% of his patients who don't respond to nondrug therapy...