Editors’ note: This past October, Benjamin Riley, the Managing Editor of The New Criterion, spoke by telephone with the architectural historian Clive Aslet and the photographer Dylan Thomas from their ...

Old Homes, New Life: The Resurgence of the British Country House, by Clive Aslet and Dylan Thomas (Triglyph Books: 2020), 304 pages. Like Tolstoy’s unhappy families, each tradition of Europe’s ...