James Wolcott

From the Review

June 27, 1985: Southern Discomfort

Captain Maximus by Barry Hannah

Lives of the Saints by Nancy Lemann

November 22, 1984: Honest Floozies

Symphony for the Devil: The Rolling Stones Story by Philip Norman

Dance with the Devil: The Rolling Stones and Their Times by Stanley Booth

Dylan by Jonathan Cott

April 14, 1983: The Secret Sharers

The Little Drummer Girl by John le Carré

November 4, 1982: Tom Wolfe's Greatest Hits

The Purple Decades: A Reader by Tom Wolfe

July 15, 1982: R.I.P.

Edie: An American Biography by Jean Stein, edited with George Plimpton

June 10, 1982: Straw Dogs

Virginie: Her Two Lives by John Hawkes

Sabbatical: A Romance by John Barth

January 21, 1982: More Kicks than Pricks

Nobody Here But Us Chickens by Marvin Mudrick

November 19, 1981: Brave New World

Easy Travel to Other Planets by Ted Mooney

August 13, 1981: Striking Out

June 11, 1981: Friendship (letter)

May 14, 1981: Sailors Have More Fun

Darconville's Cat by Alexander Theroux

April 2, 1981: On the Beat

First Reactions: Critical Essays 1968-1979 by Clive James

Unreliable Memoirs by Clive James

January 22, 1981: Who Needs Enemies?

Saul Bellow, Drumlin Woodchuck by Mark Harris

September 25, 1980: Tiny Coffins

Music for Chameleons by Truman Capote

July 17, 1980: Kvetchy But Unbowed

Joshua Then and Now by Mordecai Richler

June 26, 1980: Life Among the Ninnies

The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Volume Seven (1966-1974) edited and with a preface by Gunther Stuhlmann

May 15, 1980: In Like Flynn

Errol Flynn: The Untold Story by Charles Higham

April 3, 1980: Some Fun!

Morgan's Passing by Anne Tyler

Life Before Man by Margaret Atwood

March 6, 1980: Lightly Toasted

Show People: Profiles in Entertainment by Kenneth Tynan

January 24, 1980: Active Vonnegut (letter)

November 22, 1979: Mod Apostle

Jailbird by Kurt Vonnegut

April 6, 1978: TV Guide

Television: The First Fifty Years by Jeff Greenfield

Remote Control by Frank Mankiewicz, by Joel Swerdlow

The Sponsor: Notes on a Modern Potentate by Erik Barnouw

Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television by Jerry Mander