Traditional panorama ...

... Bryan Appleyard - A Capital Fellow: John Lanchester. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

... in Lanchester’s new and mighty 650-page novel, Capital, Arabella is exactly the same at the end as she is at the beginning — frigid and uncaring, lost in her vicious dreams of ­self-concern. She cares nothing for her children, less for her ­husband. Sustained by her ­villainous friend Saskia, even as the 2008 crash looms, her only concerns are spas and spending. She doesn’t feel entitled, she is entitlement incarnate.