In the Claremont Review of Books, a discussion of female characters in Tom Wolfe’s books from the perspective of F. Roger Devlin:
Woman in Full
By: Michael Anton
Posted: May 29, 2015
… Wolfe tells unwe...
Skull and Bones logoQ. What does "322" mean?A. It's a secret.
The subject of secret societies and cults in Turkish politics got me thinking about American analogs. For example, the 2004 presid...
A continuing theme here is how often the latest headlines resemble plots in old Tom Wolfe novels. From the NYT:
Jameis Winston, the Florida State quarterback who was a leading contender for the Heisma...
I've been writing for years about what Tom Wolfe calls the "mania for the Great White Defendant." Here are some links to this recurrent phenomenon in fact and fiction:
Bonfire of the Vanities on the G...
One of my relatively few successes in the field of Awareness Raising over the last decade has been how much more cognizant a small fraction of the public has become that Tom Wolfe's 1987 bestseller The...
Remember last spring when the Main Stream Media kicked off the Obama re-election drive by inflating a local police blotter item—the shooting of Trayvon Martin in Florida—into the latest Hunt for the Gr...
I just picked up my copy of Tom Wolfe's first new novel in eight years, Back To Blood(a story of 21st Century Miami), and opened it at random. Here's the first paragraph I read (on p. 181):
Now he lo...
Novelist Tom Wolfe announced several years ago that his next book would take place in south Florida and would explore immigration. One can only hope that he will skewer the diversity cult in his own un...
So far, all we know of the last phone conversations between Trayvon Martin and his anonymous girlfriend is snatches of dialogue overseen by Martin family lawyer Benjamin Crump (which, by the way, sound...
From Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers:
Whites were still in the dark about the ghettos. They had been studying the “urban Negro” in every way they could think of for fifteen years, but they found out the...
