From Obit, two memoirs of loss try to answer grief's painful questions. A look at how dead people in 1700s were the first celebrities. In Great Britain it's as easy to open a lap dancing club as a coffee shop. This old house policy: Our government's approach to housing has grown nonsensical: encourage borrowing to keep homes expensive — it's time to rebuild. An interview with Sam Gosling, author of Snoop: What Your Stuff Says About You. Don't count Drudge out: His demise is overreported once again. Adelle Waldman reads Proust in the park and delights in his spot-on sense of humour — "why didn't anyone tell me", she wonders. The crisis last time: Would democracy control the corporations, Adolf Augustus Berle asked in 1932, or would the corporations control democracy? A review of The Lost Art of

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