Gore Vidal

Closest Companion: The Unknown Story of the Intimate Friendship Between Franklin Roosevelt and Margaret Suckley edited and annotated by Geoffrey C. Ward

November 4, 1993: A Nineteenth-Century Man

The Sixties: The Last Journal, 1960–1972 by Edmund Wilson, edited with an introduction by Lewis M. Dabney

October 8, 1992: The Romance of Sinclair Lewis

Main Street and Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis, edited by John Hersey

November 21, 1991: Lincoln Addendum (letter)

August 15, 1991: Lincoln Up Close

February 1, 1990: Maugham's Half & Half

Willie: The Life of W. Somerset Maugham by Robert Calder

A Writer's Notebook by W. Somerset Maugham

The Razor's Edge by W. Somerset Maugham

The Narrow Corner by W. Somerset Maugham

Cakes and Ale by W. Somerset Maugham

August 17, 1989: Rosebud (letter)

June 1, 1989: Remembering Orson Welles

Citizen Welles: A Biography of Orson Welles by Frank Brady

The Big Brass Ring a screenplay by Orson Welles, with Oja Kadar

October 27, 1988: Every Eckermann His Own Man

Selections from the first two issues of The New York Review of Books with an introduction by Elizabeth Hardwick

August 18, 1988: Vidal's 'Lincoln': An Exchange

April 28, 1988: Gore Vidal's 'Lincoln'?: An Exchange

April 14, 1988: Powell's People (letter)

November 5, 1987: Dawn Powell, the American Writer

May 7, 1987: Obsession

Little Wilson and Big God by Anthony Burgess

December 18, 1986: A Mind So Fine (letter)

November 6, 1986: Lessons of the Master

Henry James: Literary Criticism Essays on Literature, American Writers, English Writers

Henry James: Literary Criticism French Writers, Other European Writers, The Prefaces to the New York Edition

February 27, 1986: Calling Dr. Kubie (letter)

November 21, 1985: On Italo Calvino

August 15, 1985: Caring for the Bird (letter)

June 13, 1985: Immortal Bird

The Kindness of Strangers: The Life of Tennessee Williams by Donald Spoto

Tennessee: Cry of the Heart by Dotson Rader

January 17, 1985: Love of Flying

The Winged Gospel: America's Romance with Aviation, 1900–1950 by Joseph J. Corn

March 29, 1984: In Love with the Adverb

March 1, 1984: Cracking 'The Golden Bowl' (letter)

January 19, 1984: Return to 'The Golden Bowl'

October 27, 1983: 'The Peculiar American Stamp'

Novels, 1875-1886 by William Dean Howells

September 29, 1983: The Best Years of Our Lives

Make-Believe: The Story of Nancy and Ronald Reagan by Laurence Leamer

May 12, 1983: The Collector

Voices: A Memoir by Frederic Prokosch

September 23, 1982: Monkey Business

Indecent Exposure: A True Story of Hollywood and Wall Street by David McClintick

April 29, 1982: The Ruins of Washington

March 4, 1982: Death in the Philippines (letter)

December 17, 1981: Death in the Philippines (letter)

October 22, 1981: Verifying Genocide (letter)

August 13, 1981: An American Sissy

Mornings on Horseback by David McCullough

February 5, 1981: The Second American Revolution?

Cracks in the Constitution by Ferdinand Lundberg

December 4, 1980: The Thinking Man's Novel

Ideas and the Novel by Mary McCarthy

Peacock Displayed: A Satirist in His Context by Marilyn Butler

September 25, 1980: This Critic and This Gin and These Shoes

The Thirties: From Notebooks and Diaries of the Period by Edmund Wilson, edited by Leon Edel

May 1, 1980: Scott's Case

The Notebooks of F. Scott Fitzgerald edited by Matthew J. Bruccoli

Correspondence of F. Scott Fitzgerald edited by Matthew J. Bruccoli, edited by Margaret M. Duggan, with Susan Walker

February 21, 1980: The Wisdom of the East (letter)

December 20, 1979: Paradise Regained

Shikasta by Doris Lessing

October 25, 1979: On the Assassins' Trail

Candido: or, A Dream Dreamed in Sicily by Leonardo Sciascia, translated by Adrienne Foulke

October 11, 1979: Hard Marker (letter)

June 28, 1979: Secrets of the Shell

The Myth Makers: Literary Essays by V.S. Pritchett

June 29, 1978: Bert and LaBelle and Jimmy and God

This Too Shall Pass by LaBelle Lance, by Gary Sledge

February 9, 1978: Rich Kids

Privileged Ones Volume V of "Children of Crisis" Robert Coles

October 13, 1977: On Rereading the Oz Books

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum

The Marvelous Land of Oz by L. Frank Baum

Ozma of Oz by L. Frank Baum

Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz by L. Frank Baum

The Road to Oz by L. Frank Baum

The Emerald City of Oz by L. Frank Baum

The Lost Princess of Oz by L. Frank Baum

The Tin Woodman of Oz by L. Frank Baum

Glinda of Oz by L. Frank Baum

The Making of the Wizard of Oz by Aljean Harmetz

September 29, 1977: The Wizard of the 'Wizard'

To Please a Child by Frank Joslyn Baum, by Russell P. MacFall

The Wizard of Oz and Who He Was edited with two introductory essays by Martin Gardner, by Russell B. Nye

The Oz Scrapbook by David L. Greene, by Dick Martin

Wonderful Wizard Marvelous Land by Raylyn Moore, with an introduction by Ray Bradbury

July 14, 1977: For the Record (letter)

February 3, 1977: Who Makes Movies? (letter)

December 9, 1976: Art, Sex and Isherwood

Christopher and His Kind: 1929-1939 by Christopher Isherwood

November 25, 1976: Who Makes the Movies?

Some Time in the Sun by Tom Dardis

A Biographical Dictionary of Film by David Thomson

October 28, 1976: Plastic Fiction (letter)

August 5, 1976: The "Excelsior" Affair (letter)

July 15, 1976: American Plastic: The Matter of Fiction

Writing Degree Zero and Elements of Semiology by Roland Barthes

S/Z by Roland Barthes, translated by Richard Miller

The Pleasure of the Text by Roland Barthes, translated by Richard Miller

The New Fiction: Interviews with Innovative American Writers by Joe David Bellamy

Come Back, Dr. Caligari by Donald Barthelme

Snow White by Donald Barthelme

Unspeakable Practices, Unnatural Acts by Donald Barthelme

City Life by Donald Barthelme

Sadness by Donald Barthelme

Guilty Pleasures by Donald Barthelme

The Dead Father by Donald Barthelme

The Little Disturbances of Man: Stories of Men and Women at Love by Grace Paley

Enormous Changes at the Last Minute by Grace Paley

Omensetter's Luck by William Gass

In the Heart of the Heart of the Country by William Gass

The Floating Opera by John Barth

The End of the Road by John Barth

The Sot-Weed Factor by John Barth

Giles Goat-Boy by John Barth

Lost in the Funhouse by John Barth

Chimera by John Barth

V. by Thomas Pynchon

The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon

Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon

June 10, 1976: Freedom When? (letter)

April 1, 1976: The Adams' Fall: II

March 18, 1976: Adamses: The 'Best' People I

The Adams Chronicles: Four Generations of Greatness by Jack Shepherd

John Adams: A Biography in His Own Words edited by James Bishop Peabody

The Character of John Adams American History and Culture by Peter Shaw

Adams: An American Dynasty by Francis Russell

The Book of Abigail and John: Selected Letters of the Adams Family 1762-1784 edited by L. H. Butterfield, edited by Marc Friedlaender, edited by Mary-Jo Kline

March 4, 1976: Solved! (letter)

February 5, 1976: Selected Memories of the Glorious Bird and the Golden Age

Memoirs by Tennessee Williams

September 18, 1975: The Grants

The Personal Memoirs of Julia Dent Grant edited by John Y. Simon

June 12, 1975: A Special Supplement: The Meaning of Vietnam

October 17, 1974: Emperor of Concrete

The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York by Robert A. Caro

July 18, 1974: Real Class

A Writer's Capital by Louis Auchincloss

The Partners by Louis Auchincloss

May 30, 1974: Fabulous Calvino

The Path to the Nest of Spiders by Italo Calvino, translated by Archibald Colquhoun

The Baron in the Trees by Italo Calvino, translated by Archibald Colquhoun

The Nonexistent Knight and the Cloven Viscount by Italo Calvino, translated by Archibald Colquhoun

Cosmicomics by Italo Calvino, translated by William Weaver

t zero by Italo Calvino, translated by William Weaver

The Watcher and Other Stories by Italo Calvino, translated by William Weaver, Archibald Colquhoun, and Peggy Wright

Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino, translated by William Weaver

February 21, 1974: The Kapstein Konnection (letter)

December 13, 1973: The Art and Arts of E. Howard Hunt

Give Us This Day by Howard Hunt

The Berlin Ending by E. Howard Hunt

East of Farewell by Howard Hunt

Limit of Darkness by Howard Hunt

Stranger in Town by Howard Hunt

Maelstrom by Howard Hunt

Bimini Run by Howard Hunt

A Foreign Affair by John Baxter

I Came to Kill by Gordon Davis

Be My Victim by Robert Dietrich

End of a Stripper by Robert Dietrich

Angel Eyes by Robert Dietrich

A Gift for Gomala by John Baxter

Where Murder Waits by Gordon Davis

The Coven by David St. John

Compulsive Spy: The Strange Career of E. Howard Hunt by Tad Szulc

An Assassin's Diary by Arthur H. Bremer

October 18, 1973: West Point and the Third Loyalty

West Point: America's Power Fraternity by K. Bruce Galloway, by Robert Bowie Johnson Jr.

Defeated: Inside America's Military Machine by Stuart H. Loory

September 20, 1973: The Fever Breaks (letter)

May 31, 1973: The Ashes of Hollywood II: The Top 6 of the Top 10

May 17, 1973: The Ashes of Hollywood I: The Bottom 4 of the Top 10

August 10, 1972: Homage to Daniel Shays

Fat Cats and Democrats: The Role of the Big Rich in the Party of the Common Man by G. William Domhoff

Bella! Ms. Abzug Goes to Washington by Bella Abzug

The Washington Pay-off: An Insider's View of Corruption in Government by Robert Winter-Berger

April 20, 1972: Hughes' Tool

Howard, the Amazing Mr. Hughes by Noah Dietrich, by Bob Thomas

February 10, 1972: Setting It Straight (letter)

December 16, 1971: Mishima (letter)

November 18, 1971: Eleanor

Eleanor and Franklin: The Story of Their Relationship Based on Eleanor Roosevelt's Private Papers by Joseph P. Lash

July 22, 1971: In Another Country

Patriarchal Attitudes by Eva Figes

June 17, 1971: Mr. Japan

Sun and Steel by Yukio Mishima

June 4, 1970: Number One

Everything you always wanted to know about sex^*…^*but were afraid to ask by David Reuben M.D.

The Hand-Reared Boy by Brain W. Aldiss

The Sensuous Woman by "J."

April 9, 1970: Ambassador Erect

Annenberg: A Biography of Power by Gaeton Fonzi

September 12, 1968: The Late Show

December 7, 1967: See It Later

Due to Circumstances Beyond Our Control by Fred W. Friendly

May 12, 1966: Pornography (letter)

March 31, 1966: On Pornography

The Olympia Reader edited by Maurice Girodias

December 3, 1964: The Writing of E. Nesbit

April 16, 1964: Appointment with O'Hara

The Hat On The Bed by John O'Hara

Elizabeth Appleton by John O'Hara

December 12, 1963: Citizen Ken

The McLandress Dimension by Mark Epernay

February 1, 1963: Tenacity

Here to Stay: Studies in Human Tenacity by John Hersey

Books by Gore Vidal

The Last Empire: Essays 1992-2000 (2001)
The Golden Age: A Novel (2000)
Washington, D.C. (2000)
Gore Vidal: Sexually Speaking, Collected Sex Writings (1999)
The Essential Gore Vidal (1999)
The American Presidency (1998)
The Smithsonian Institution: A Novel (1998)
Messiah (1998)
The Best Man (1996)
The City and the Pillar and Seven Early Stories (1995)
Palimpsest: A Memoir (1995)
United States: Essays: 1952-1992 (1993)
The Decline and Fall of the American Empire (1992)
Live from Golgotha (1992)
Screening History (1992)
Hollywood: A Novel of America in the 1920s (1990)
At Home: Essays 1982-1988 (1988)
Empire: A Novel (1987)
Myra Breckinridge; Myron (1986)
Vidal in Venice (1985)
Lincoln: A Novel (1984)
Duluth (1983)
The Second American Revolution and Other Essays (1976-1982) (1982)
Creation: A Novel (1981)
Views from a Window: Conversations with Gore Vidal (1980)
Dark Green, Bright Red (1978)
The Judgment of Paris (1978)
A Search for the King (1978)
Three By Box: The Complete Mysteries of Edgar Box [i.E. G. Vidal] (1978)
Kalki: A Novel (1978)
Matters of Fact and of Fiction: Essays 1973-1976 (1977)
1876: A Novel (1976)
Myron: A Novel (1974)
Burr: A Novel (1973)
An Evening with Richard Nixon (1972)
Homage to Daniel Shays; Collected Essays, 1952-1972 (1972)
Julian (1970)
Weekend; A Comedy in Two Acts (1968)
Visit to a Small Planet: A Comedy Akin to a Vaudeville (1959)
A Thirsty Evil; Seven Short Stories (1956)