For a number of years, it's been known that Tom Wolfe is writing a book about immigration set in Miami. For awhile, it was supposed to be published in 2009, then in 2010, and now in 2012. Wolfe will be...

David Denby, the lesser of the two New Yorker movie reviewers, has written a short book entitled Snark: It’s Mean, It’s Personal, and It’s Ruining Our Conversation.The book doesn't sound terribly inter...

One of the odder figures in 20th Century American history was Sen. Joe McCarthy's chief counsel, Roy Cohn, whose infatuation with another McCarthy staffer, handsome young G. David Schine, was used by D...

From an art exhibit review in the New York Times by Roberta Smith: Art is long, art criticism is often very, very brief, its Internet afterlife notwithstanding. Its viability relies on a mixture of pr...

From one Virginian to another (in The Atlantic): Fortunately for America, as Jefferson saw it, British aristocracy had never taken root here in the colonies. Most British toffs didnt have the faintest...

With the 1979 publication of The Right Stuff, a brilliant non-fiction account of the men involved in the Mercury program, Tom Wolfe completed a titanic decade and a half in which he revolutionized ...