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More than 300,000 German civilians were killed by Allied strategic bombing in World War II. It was thought that it would break the German economy, but when U.S. economists surveyed its material consequences, they found, to their surprise, that it had impeded German industry only very little. Strategic bombing was, in the words of J.K. Galbraith, “perhaps the greatest miscalculation of the war.” The fact that little was gained by it should compound our horror, though, in the scope of the war and the emotions at play, it rarely does.

Thomas McMullan In my novel, The Last Good Man, an isolated community governs itself by writing on a large wall. Walk up to this structure, looming on the village’s outskirts, and you’ll find notes and missives about piano lessons and lost cats, but you’ll also find accusations plastered in red paint. Geoff Sharpe the butcher has been stealing cuts of meat, a poster might proclaim. Geoff Sharpe has been slacking on the job. And if there are enough accusations about a person, something is done about it; atonement will be sought. This novel has come from a period where questions of pu...