A Tom Wolfe for the 2020s
by Peter J. LeithartThe Index of Self-Destructive Acts is the Big New York Book of the 2020s, as Tom Wolfe’s Bonfire of the Vanities was for the 1980s. Continue Reading »
A Caveat on the Great Tom Wolfe
by George WeigelAfter The Right Stuff got me going on Tom Wolfe, it was impossible to stop. Continue Reading »
What We've Been Reading—3.31.17
by EditorsAlexi Sargeant: I read Brian Tinsman’s The Game Inventor's Guidebook, a how-to for aspiring game designers, including lots of insider stories from the board game industry. Continue Reading »
Kingdom of Language
by Peter J. LeithartDespite its title, Tom Wolfe’s The Kingdom of Speech isn’t mainly about language. It’s about evolution, feckless intellectuals, and leftist politics. Continue Reading »
Who’s Afraid of Tom Wolfe?
by Mary Ann GlendonWhy does Tom Wolfe’s latest book make the mandarins of taste so uncomfortable? John Updike took a good deal of space in the New Yorker to declare that A Man in Full was “entertainment, not literature.” Norman Mailer in the New York Review of Books dismissed the novel as an “adroit . . . . Continue Reading »
Talking About Writing
by Joseph SchwartzConversations with Tom Wolfe edited by dorothy scura university press of mississippi, 296 pages, $29.95 Conversations with John Gardner edited by allan chavkin university press of mississippi, 310 pages, $29.95Because Tom Wolfe is a celebrity, there is every reason for him to agree to as many . . . . Continue Reading »
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