Gore Vidal

Too much Gore
Vidal's second memoir merely retells the stories we already know from his enormous -- and potentially irrelevant -- body of work.
Founding sinners
While Thomas Jefferson never freed his slaves, George Washington did, despite his wife's wishes. Historians are finally coming to terms with America's oldest wound.
The Fix
Eddie and Christy are the cutest, Bobby De Niro is the hairiest, and David and Victoria Beckham are the horniest. Plus: A romantic comedy about SARS?
The sound bite and the fury
Literary bad boy James Frey says Dave Eggers can eat his dust. His self-promotion is tiresome, but his addiction memoir, "A Million Little Pieces," shows he has the right stuff.
Gore Vidal
Congress should investigate how much the Bush "oil junta" knew in advance about Sept. 11. This and other bombshells from American literature's leading provocateur.
Gore Vidal joins the black-helicopter crowd
With his defense of Timothy McVeigh as a heroic freedom fighter in this month's Vanity Fair, the contrarian goes postal on us once and for all.
Dive-bombing FDR
With the release of "Pearl Harbor," conspiracy theorists have resurrected the canard that Roosevelt had advance warning of the attack.
Gore Vidal
The Golden Age
The other Gore
By Jake Tapper
The other Gore
Writer, pundit and "gadfly" Gore Vidal talks about his new book, the little difference between his distant cousin Al and George W. Bush, and how Ralph Nader became boring.
"The Golden Age"
Gore Vidal delivers the final volume of the American Chronicle series, his sweeping, score-settling fictional history of the United States.
"A dangerous family"
Gore Vidal talks about Cousin Al, the evils of corporate America and why he's supporting Ralph Nader.
A "Rosebud" by any other name ...
Some say that the sled was William Randolph Hearst's pet name for his lover's clitoris.
The 7 vices of highly creative people
If you go through life free of bad habits, you won't live forever, but it will feel like it.
Updike and Parini trade slaps on review pages
Dueling men of letters fail to reveal conflict of interest.
Retiring line
After 33 years of throwing punches, William F. Buckley Jr. hangs it up.
Letters to the Editor
Evolutionary theory asks "how," not "if"; give Superchunk a chance; generous dad is being suckered.
Sexually Speaking: Collected Sex Writings
In his essays on the topic, the author grimaces at the effects of 2,000 years of Judeo-Christian morality.
True Gore
Gore Vidal picks five favorite postwar novels, including one by ... Gore Vidal.
I wrote about Michiko Kakutani and lived to tell the tale
Punch drunk
Vivian Gornick reviews 'The Time of Our Time' a collection of essays by Norman Mailer
The Salon Interview: Gore Vidal
An interview with Gore Vidal by Chris Haines.
Trash Lit 101
Trash Lit 101: It's easy to fire spitballs at books that are embossed with the phrase No. 1 New York Times Bestseller. But the lines between bestselling trash and high-quality literature are a lot more fluid -- and self-determined -- than we usually think, Dwight Garner suggests.

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