LAURENCE JARVIK REVIEWS Michel Houellebecq’s Submission. “In any case, Houellebecq’s latest success de scandal, Submission: A Novel, published in translation this month in America, created a sensation when it hit the bookstores in France just as Islamic fundamentalists attacked Charlie Hebdo and the HyperCacher supermarket. In the aftermath of that horrific mass murder, Houellebecq was given police protection by the French government–then cancelled his book tour.”