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Tom Wolfe
January 5, 2024
MagazineOsita Nwanevu
The Electric Kool-Aid Conservative
Tom Wolfe was no radical.
April 7, 2023
MagazineScott Bradfield
The Curse of True Grit
How Charles Portis’s greatest success overshadowed the rest of his work
September 26, 2022
Timothy Noah
Hell Is a World in Which Everybody Writes Like Axios
The site’s “brevity” is dumb and ugly, and, ironically, it slows me down.
May 15, 2018
Jeet Heer
Tom Wolfe reunited journalism with literature.
January 21, 2016
Marissa Brostoff
How David Bowie Avoided the Cliché of the Aging Rock Star
Bowie managed to resist the cult of youth that later trapped Mick Jagger and others of their generation.
January 15, 2013
Mark Athitakis
The Literary Insecurities of Washington, D.C.
December 20, 2012
Michael Dolan
Borking Around
February 27, 2012
Timothy Noah
Boo's Masterwork
September 6, 2011
Randall Kennedy
The Sharpton Renaissance: How the Reverend’s Reputation Got Refurbished
February 5, 2010
William Galston
Freedom Agenda
August 21, 2009
Adam Kirsch
Chic Radical
February 18, 2009
Sam Tanenhaus
Conservatism Is Dead
November 26, 2006
The New Republic Staff
Tom Wolfe On Real Estate
October 29, 1995
David Greenberg
Yankee, Stay Home
December 24, 1984
John Lahr
Exiles on Easy Street
March 20, 1976
Mary Ann Tighe
Familiar Faces
July 24, 1965
Joseph Epstein
Rococo and Roll
A review of Tom Wolfe's "The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby"

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