James Wolcott

James Wolcott is a columnist for Vanity Fair. (October 2018)

Superman’s Feet of Clay

Dave Zirin’s ‘Jim Brown: Last Man Standing’

Jim Brown: Last Man Standing

by Dave Zirin

October 11, 2018 issue

The Man Who Wanted Everything

The life of Jann Wenner and ‘Rolling Stone’

Sticky Fingers: The Life and Times of Jann Wenner and Rolling Stone Magazine

by Joe Hagan

April 19, 2018 issue

Southern Discomfort

Captain Maximus

by Barry Hannah

Lives of the Saints

by Nancy Lemann

June 27, 1985 issue

Honest Floozies

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

November 22, 1984 issue

The Secret Sharers

The Little Drummer Girl

by John le Carré

April 14, 1983 issue

Tom Wolfe’s Greatest Hits

The Purple Decades: A Reader

by Tom Wolfe

November 4, 1982 issue

Letter

It Ain’t Necessarily So

January 20, 1983 issue

R.I.P.

R.I.P.

Edie: An American Biography

by Jean Stein, edited with George Plimpton

July 15, 1982 issue

Letter

Marion Boyars

‘Stargazer’ Available

September 23, 1982 issue

Straw Dogs

Virginie: Her Two Lives

by John Hawkes

Sabbatical: A Romance

by John Barth

June 10, 1982 issue

More Kicks than Pricks

Nobody Here But Us Chickens

by Marvin Mudrick

January 21, 1982 issue

Brave New World

Easy Travel to Other Planets

by Ted Mooney

November 19, 1981 issue

Striking Out

August 13, 1981 issue

Friendship

June 11, 1981 issue

Sailors Have More Fun

Darconville's Cat

by Alexander Theroux

May 14, 1981 issue

On the Beat

First Reactions: Critical Essays 1968-1979

by Clive James

Unreliable Memoirs

by Clive James

April 2, 1981 issue

Who Needs Enemies?

Saul Bellow, Drumlin Woodchuck

by Mark Harris

January 22, 1981 issue

Letter

Richard Stern

Friendship

June 11, 1981 issue

Tiny Coffins

Music for Chameleons

by Truman Capote

September 25, 1980 issue

Kvetchy But Unbowed

Joshua Then and Now

by Mordecai Richler

July 17, 1980 issue

Life Among the Ninnies

Life Among the Ninnies

The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Volume Seven (1966-1974)

edited and with a preface by Gunther Stuhlmann

June 26, 1980 issue

In Like Flynn

Errol Flynn: The Untold Story

by Charles Higham

May 15, 1980 issue

Some Fun!

Morgan's Passing

by Anne Tyler

Life Before Man

by Margaret Atwood

April 3, 1980 issue

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