How else could he have become such a chronicler whose greatest work is still studied as the precursor of the modern psychological novel?

ECONOMIST: New fiction

The novel seems to treat extreme touchiness as a default psychological setting.

NEWYORKER: Mugglemarch

The event does not explicitly surface in the novel, but it adds a grave sadness to Mr Grossman's searching account of the psychological and physical costs of a seemingly endless state of war.

ECONOMIST: New fiction