Books
The Right Stuff
– New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1979.Summary from Publisher: Men first flew into space in 1961, but until The Right Stuff was first published in 1979 few people had a sense of the most engrossing side of that adventure:… More
Review of “The Right Stuff”
– C.D.B. Bryan, New York Times, September 23, 1979.“As to just what this ineffable quality was. . .well, it obviously involved bravery. But it was not bravery in the simple sense of being willing to risk your life. . .any fool could… More
Hog Heaven
– Review of The Right Stuff. John Gregory Dunne, The New York Review of Books, November 8, 1979.Class has always been Tom Wolfe’s subject, and I suspect the reason for much of the disfavor in which he is held. In what purports to be an egalitarian society, the existence of class is… More
The Right Stuff
– Douglas A. Jeffrey, Claremont Review of Books, Winter 1983.Excerpt: The right stuff is something that those who have it recognize in one another but do not and perhaps cannot speak of. More than expertise and more than daring, the right stuff is… More
A Man in Full
– New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998.Summary from Publisher: The setting is Atlanta, Georgia-a racially mixed, late-century boomtown full of fresh wealth and wily politicians. The protagonist is Charles Croker, once a college… More
A Man Half Full
– Review of A Man in Full. Norman Mailer, The New York Review of Books, December 17, 1998.…Three cheers. One has to applaud his moxie. Only an innocent or a simpleton could fail to recognize that a live hornet was being deposited in the crevice of every literary seat in… More
God and Man in Full by P.J. O’Rourke
– P. J. O'Rourke, Policy Review, April/May 1999.Excerpt: Among the A-list big dogs of chic fiction, Tom Wolfe’s A Man in Full is not da bomb. Of course, there’s vulgar success against it — cover of Time, phone number first… More
Who’s Afraid of Tom Wolfe?
– Mary Ann Glendon, First Things, August 1999.Excerpt: Why does Tom Wolfe’s latest book make the mandarins of taste so uncomfortable? John Updike took a good deal of space in the New Yorker to declare that A Man in Full was… More
An Undergrad in Full
– Harvey Mansfield, Wall Street Journal, November 5, 2004.Excerpt: Tom Wolfe was of course known as a social satirist long before he became the novelist we know today. One thinks, for instance, of “The Intelligent Coed’s Guide to… More
He is Charlotte Simmons
– Peter Berkowitz, Policy Review, February/March 2005.Excerpt: How little the radicalness of the sexual revolution has been appreciated and how much questioning its consequences is deemed bad manners or worse has been amply demonstrated by the… More
The Pirate Pose
– Portfolio, May 2007.Excerpt: There are some heavy-hitting Medicare-qualified hedge fund managers, notably Carl Icahn, 71, and the home run king, T. Boone Pickens, 78, who made $1.5 billion personally in a… More
Back to Blood
– New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2012.Summary from Publisher: A big, panoramic story of the new America, as told by our master chronicler of the way we live now. As a police launch speeds across Miami’s Biscayne… More
A Woman in Full by Michael Anton
– Michael Anton, Claremont Review of Books, Spring 2015.Excerpt: Wolfe tells unwelcome truths about race, multiculturalism, modern art, masculinity, and much else. At least these get noticed. His heterodox insights on women have been entirely… More
Essays
The Right Stuff
– New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1979.Summary from Publisher: Men first flew into space in 1961, but until The Right Stuff was first published in 1979 few people had a sense of the most engrossing side of that adventure:… More
Review of “The Right Stuff”
– C.D.B. Bryan, New York Times, September 23, 1979.“As to just what this ineffable quality was. . .well, it obviously involved bravery. But it was not bravery in the simple sense of being willing to risk your life. . .any fool could… More
Hog Heaven
– Review of The Right Stuff. John Gregory Dunne, The New York Review of Books, November 8, 1979.Class has always been Tom Wolfe’s subject, and I suspect the reason for much of the disfavor in which he is held. In what purports to be an egalitarian society, the existence of class is… More
The Right Stuff
– Douglas A. Jeffrey, Claremont Review of Books, Winter 1983.Excerpt: The right stuff is something that those who have it recognize in one another but do not and perhaps cannot speak of. More than expertise and more than daring, the right stuff is… More
A Man in Full
– New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998.Summary from Publisher: The setting is Atlanta, Georgia-a racially mixed, late-century boomtown full of fresh wealth and wily politicians. The protagonist is Charles Croker, once a college… More
A Man Half Full
– Review of A Man in Full. Norman Mailer, The New York Review of Books, December 17, 1998.…Three cheers. One has to applaud his moxie. Only an innocent or a simpleton could fail to recognize that a live hornet was being deposited in the crevice of every literary seat in… More
God and Man in Full by P.J. O’Rourke
– P. J. O'Rourke, Policy Review, April/May 1999.Excerpt: Among the A-list big dogs of chic fiction, Tom Wolfe’s A Man in Full is not da bomb. Of course, there’s vulgar success against it — cover of Time, phone number first… More
Who’s Afraid of Tom Wolfe?
– Mary Ann Glendon, First Things, August 1999.Excerpt: Why does Tom Wolfe’s latest book make the mandarins of taste so uncomfortable? John Updike took a good deal of space in the New Yorker to declare that A Man in Full was… More
An Undergrad in Full
– Harvey Mansfield, Wall Street Journal, November 5, 2004.Excerpt: Tom Wolfe was of course known as a social satirist long before he became the novelist we know today. One thinks, for instance, of “The Intelligent Coed’s Guide to… More
He is Charlotte Simmons
– Peter Berkowitz, Policy Review, February/March 2005.Excerpt: How little the radicalness of the sexual revolution has been appreciated and how much questioning its consequences is deemed bad manners or worse has been amply demonstrated by the… More
The Pirate Pose
– Portfolio, May 2007.Excerpt: There are some heavy-hitting Medicare-qualified hedge fund managers, notably Carl Icahn, 71, and the home run king, T. Boone Pickens, 78, who made $1.5 billion personally in a… More
Back to Blood
– New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2012.Summary from Publisher: A big, panoramic story of the new America, as told by our master chronicler of the way we live now. As a police launch speeds across Miami’s Biscayne… More
A Woman in Full by Michael Anton
– Michael Anton, Claremont Review of Books, Spring 2015.Excerpt: Wolfe tells unwelcome truths about race, multiculturalism, modern art, masculinity, and much else. At least these get noticed. His heterodox insights on women have been entirely… More
Commentary
The Right Stuff
– New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1979.Summary from Publisher: Men first flew into space in 1961, but until The Right Stuff was first published in 1979 few people had a sense of the most engrossing side of that adventure:… More
Review of “The Right Stuff”
– C.D.B. Bryan, New York Times, September 23, 1979.“As to just what this ineffable quality was. . .well, it obviously involved bravery. But it was not bravery in the simple sense of being willing to risk your life. . .any fool could… More
Hog Heaven
– Review of The Right Stuff. John Gregory Dunne, The New York Review of Books, November 8, 1979.Class has always been Tom Wolfe’s subject, and I suspect the reason for much of the disfavor in which he is held. In what purports to be an egalitarian society, the existence of class is… More
The Right Stuff
– Douglas A. Jeffrey, Claremont Review of Books, Winter 1983.Excerpt: The right stuff is something that those who have it recognize in one another but do not and perhaps cannot speak of. More than expertise and more than daring, the right stuff is… More
A Man in Full
– New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998.Summary from Publisher: The setting is Atlanta, Georgia-a racially mixed, late-century boomtown full of fresh wealth and wily politicians. The protagonist is Charles Croker, once a college… More
A Man Half Full
– Review of A Man in Full. Norman Mailer, The New York Review of Books, December 17, 1998.…Three cheers. One has to applaud his moxie. Only an innocent or a simpleton could fail to recognize that a live hornet was being deposited in the crevice of every literary seat in… More
God and Man in Full by P.J. O’Rourke
– P. J. O'Rourke, Policy Review, April/May 1999.Excerpt: Among the A-list big dogs of chic fiction, Tom Wolfe’s A Man in Full is not da bomb. Of course, there’s vulgar success against it — cover of Time, phone number first… More
Who’s Afraid of Tom Wolfe?
– Mary Ann Glendon, First Things, August 1999.Excerpt: Why does Tom Wolfe’s latest book make the mandarins of taste so uncomfortable? John Updike took a good deal of space in the New Yorker to declare that A Man in Full was… More
An Undergrad in Full
– Harvey Mansfield, Wall Street Journal, November 5, 2004.Excerpt: Tom Wolfe was of course known as a social satirist long before he became the novelist we know today. One thinks, for instance, of “The Intelligent Coed’s Guide to… More
He is Charlotte Simmons
– Peter Berkowitz, Policy Review, February/March 2005.Excerpt: How little the radicalness of the sexual revolution has been appreciated and how much questioning its consequences is deemed bad manners or worse has been amply demonstrated by the… More
The Pirate Pose
– Portfolio, May 2007.Excerpt: There are some heavy-hitting Medicare-qualified hedge fund managers, notably Carl Icahn, 71, and the home run king, T. Boone Pickens, 78, who made $1.5 billion personally in a… More
Back to Blood
– New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2012.Summary from Publisher: A big, panoramic story of the new America, as told by our master chronicler of the way we live now. As a police launch speeds across Miami’s Biscayne… More
A Woman in Full by Michael Anton
– Michael Anton, Claremont Review of Books, Spring 2015.Excerpt: Wolfe tells unwelcome truths about race, multiculturalism, modern art, masculinity, and much else. At least these get noticed. His heterodox insights on women have been entirely… More
Multimedia
The Right Stuff
– New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1979.Summary from Publisher: Men first flew into space in 1961, but until The Right Stuff was first published in 1979 few people had a sense of the most engrossing side of that adventure:… More
Review of “The Right Stuff”
– C.D.B. Bryan, New York Times, September 23, 1979.“As to just what this ineffable quality was. . .well, it obviously involved bravery. But it was not bravery in the simple sense of being willing to risk your life. . .any fool could… More
Hog Heaven
– Review of The Right Stuff. John Gregory Dunne, The New York Review of Books, November 8, 1979.Class has always been Tom Wolfe’s subject, and I suspect the reason for much of the disfavor in which he is held. In what purports to be an egalitarian society, the existence of class is… More
The Right Stuff
– Douglas A. Jeffrey, Claremont Review of Books, Winter 1983.Excerpt: The right stuff is something that those who have it recognize in one another but do not and perhaps cannot speak of. More than expertise and more than daring, the right stuff is… More
A Man in Full
– New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998.Summary from Publisher: The setting is Atlanta, Georgia-a racially mixed, late-century boomtown full of fresh wealth and wily politicians. The protagonist is Charles Croker, once a college… More
A Man Half Full
– Review of A Man in Full. Norman Mailer, The New York Review of Books, December 17, 1998.…Three cheers. One has to applaud his moxie. Only an innocent or a simpleton could fail to recognize that a live hornet was being deposited in the crevice of every literary seat in… More
God and Man in Full by P.J. O’Rourke
– P. J. O'Rourke, Policy Review, April/May 1999.Excerpt: Among the A-list big dogs of chic fiction, Tom Wolfe’s A Man in Full is not da bomb. Of course, there’s vulgar success against it — cover of Time, phone number first… More
Who’s Afraid of Tom Wolfe?
– Mary Ann Glendon, First Things, August 1999.Excerpt: Why does Tom Wolfe’s latest book make the mandarins of taste so uncomfortable? John Updike took a good deal of space in the New Yorker to declare that A Man in Full was… More
An Undergrad in Full
– Harvey Mansfield, Wall Street Journal, November 5, 2004.Excerpt: Tom Wolfe was of course known as a social satirist long before he became the novelist we know today. One thinks, for instance, of “The Intelligent Coed’s Guide to… More
He is Charlotte Simmons
– Peter Berkowitz, Policy Review, February/March 2005.Excerpt: How little the radicalness of the sexual revolution has been appreciated and how much questioning its consequences is deemed bad manners or worse has been amply demonstrated by the… More
The Pirate Pose
– Portfolio, May 2007.Excerpt: There are some heavy-hitting Medicare-qualified hedge fund managers, notably Carl Icahn, 71, and the home run king, T. Boone Pickens, 78, who made $1.5 billion personally in a… More
Back to Blood
– New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2012.Summary from Publisher: A big, panoramic story of the new America, as told by our master chronicler of the way we live now. As a police launch speeds across Miami’s Biscayne… More
A Woman in Full by Michael Anton
– Michael Anton, Claremont Review of Books, Spring 2015.Excerpt: Wolfe tells unwelcome truths about race, multiculturalism, modern art, masculinity, and much else. At least these get noticed. His heterodox insights on women have been entirely… More
Teaching
The Right Stuff
– New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1979.Summary from Publisher: Men first flew into space in 1961, but until The Right Stuff was first published in 1979 few people had a sense of the most engrossing side of that adventure:… More
Review of “The Right Stuff”
– C.D.B. Bryan, New York Times, September 23, 1979.“As to just what this ineffable quality was. . .well, it obviously involved bravery. But it was not bravery in the simple sense of being willing to risk your life. . .any fool could… More
Hog Heaven
– Review of The Right Stuff. John Gregory Dunne, The New York Review of Books, November 8, 1979.Class has always been Tom Wolfe’s subject, and I suspect the reason for much of the disfavor in which he is held. In what purports to be an egalitarian society, the existence of class is… More
The Right Stuff
– Douglas A. Jeffrey, Claremont Review of Books, Winter 1983.Excerpt: The right stuff is something that those who have it recognize in one another but do not and perhaps cannot speak of. More than expertise and more than daring, the right stuff is… More
A Man in Full
– New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998.Summary from Publisher: The setting is Atlanta, Georgia-a racially mixed, late-century boomtown full of fresh wealth and wily politicians. The protagonist is Charles Croker, once a college… More
A Man Half Full
– Review of A Man in Full. Norman Mailer, The New York Review of Books, December 17, 1998.…Three cheers. One has to applaud his moxie. Only an innocent or a simpleton could fail to recognize that a live hornet was being deposited in the crevice of every literary seat in… More
God and Man in Full by P.J. O’Rourke
– P. J. O'Rourke, Policy Review, April/May 1999.Excerpt: Among the A-list big dogs of chic fiction, Tom Wolfe’s A Man in Full is not da bomb. Of course, there’s vulgar success against it — cover of Time, phone number first… More
Who’s Afraid of Tom Wolfe?
– Mary Ann Glendon, First Things, August 1999.Excerpt: Why does Tom Wolfe’s latest book make the mandarins of taste so uncomfortable? John Updike took a good deal of space in the New Yorker to declare that A Man in Full was… More
An Undergrad in Full
– Harvey Mansfield, Wall Street Journal, November 5, 2004.Excerpt: Tom Wolfe was of course known as a social satirist long before he became the novelist we know today. One thinks, for instance, of “The Intelligent Coed’s Guide to… More
He is Charlotte Simmons
– Peter Berkowitz, Policy Review, February/March 2005.Excerpt: How little the radicalness of the sexual revolution has been appreciated and how much questioning its consequences is deemed bad manners or worse has been amply demonstrated by the… More
The Pirate Pose
– Portfolio, May 2007.Excerpt: There are some heavy-hitting Medicare-qualified hedge fund managers, notably Carl Icahn, 71, and the home run king, T. Boone Pickens, 78, who made $1.5 billion personally in a… More
Back to Blood
– New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2012.Summary from Publisher: A big, panoramic story of the new America, as told by our master chronicler of the way we live now. As a police launch speeds across Miami’s Biscayne… More
A Woman in Full by Michael Anton
– Michael Anton, Claremont Review of Books, Spring 2015.Excerpt: Wolfe tells unwelcome truths about race, multiculturalism, modern art, masculinity, and much else. At least these get noticed. His heterodox insights on women have been entirely… More