Gore Vidal

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"The Selected Essays of Gore Vidal" reminds us that this combative political provocateur is also one of our finest literary critics.
By Louis Bayard Jun 23, 2008

  • Too much Gore

    Vidal's second memoir merely retells the stories we already know from his enormous -- and potentially irrelevant -- body of work.
    By Allen Barra January 3, 2007

  • 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.
    By Laura Miller November 25, 2003

  • 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?
    By Karen Croft May 7, 2003

  • 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.
    By Louis Bayard April 19, 2003

  • 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.
    By Gary Kamiya April 24, 2002

  • 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.
    By Gary Kamiya August 9, 2001

  • Dive-bombing FDR

    With the release of "Pearl Harbor," conspiracy theorists have resurrected the canard that Roosevelt had advance warning of the attack.
    By Judith Greer June 14, 2001

  • Gore Vidal

    The Golden Age
    By Gore Vidal October 5, 2000

  • The other Gore

    By Jake Tapper
    By September 22, 2000

  • 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.
    By Jake Tapper September 20, 2000

  • "The Golden Age"

    Gore Vidal delivers the final volume of the American Chronicle series, his sweeping, score-settling fictional history of the United States.
    By George Rafael September 20, 2000

  • "A dangerous family"

    Gore Vidal talks about Cousin Al, the evils of corporate America and why he's supporting Ralph Nader.
    By Fred Branfman August 15, 2000

  • A "Rosebud" by any other name ...

    Some say that the sled was William Randolph Hearst's pet name for his lover's clitoris.
    By David Thomson July 28, 2000

  • 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.
    By D.A. Blyler February 9, 2000

  • Updike and Parini trade slaps on review pages

    Dueling men of letters fail to reveal conflict of interest.
    By Craig Offman December 23, 1999

  • Retiring line

    After 33 years of throwing punches, William F. Buckley Jr. hangs it up.
    By Amy Reiter December 16, 1999

  • Letters to the Editor

    Evolutionary theory asks "how," not "if"; give Superchunk a chance; generous dad is being suckered.
    Letters to the Editor August 26, 1999

  • 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.
    By Saul Anton August 20, 1999

  • True Gore

    Gore Vidal picks five favorite postwar novels, including one by ... Gore Vidal.
    By Gore Vidal May 10, 1999

  • I wrote about Michiko Kakutani and lived to tell the tale

    By Susan Lehman November 5, 1998

  • Punch drunk

    Vivian Gornick reviews 'The Time of Our Time' a collection of essays by Norman Mailer
    By Vivian Gornick May 27, 1998

  • The Salon Interview: Gore Vidal

    An interview with Gore Vidal by Chris Haines.
    By Chris Haines January 14, 1998

  • 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.
    By Dwight Garner May 12, 1997
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