Books
Pornoviolence
– Esquire, July 1967. Reprinted in Mauve Gloves & Madmen, Clutter and Vine.The Birds and the Bees
– Harper's Magazine, October 1978.The Great Relearning
– The American Spectator, December 1987.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
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
Hooking Up
– New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2000.Summary from Publisher: Only yesterday boys and girls spoke of embracing and kissing (necking) as getting to first base. Second base was deep kissing, plus groping and fondling this and… More
Hooking Up: What Life Was Like at the Turn of the Second Millennium: An American’s World
– Hooking Up (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2000).Excerpt: By the year 2000, the term “working class” had fallen into disuse in the United States, and “proletariat” was so obsolete it was known only to a few bitter… More
I Am Charlotte Simmons
– New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux: 2004.Summary from Publisher: Dupont University-the Olympian halls of learning housing the cream of America’s youth, the roseate Gothic spires and manicured lawns suffused with tradition .… 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
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
Pornoviolence
– Esquire, July 1967. Reprinted in Mauve Gloves & Madmen, Clutter and Vine.The Birds and the Bees
– Harper's Magazine, October 1978.The Great Relearning
– The American Spectator, December 1987.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
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
Hooking Up
– New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2000.Summary from Publisher: Only yesterday boys and girls spoke of embracing and kissing (necking) as getting to first base. Second base was deep kissing, plus groping and fondling this and… More
Hooking Up: What Life Was Like at the Turn of the Second Millennium: An American’s World
– Hooking Up (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2000).Excerpt: By the year 2000, the term “working class” had fallen into disuse in the United States, and “proletariat” was so obsolete it was known only to a few bitter… More
I Am Charlotte Simmons
– New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux: 2004.Summary from Publisher: Dupont University-the Olympian halls of learning housing the cream of America’s youth, the roseate Gothic spires and manicured lawns suffused with tradition .… 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
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
Pornoviolence
– Esquire, July 1967. Reprinted in Mauve Gloves & Madmen, Clutter and Vine.The Birds and the Bees
– Harper's Magazine, October 1978.The Great Relearning
– The American Spectator, December 1987.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
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
Hooking Up
– New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2000.Summary from Publisher: Only yesterday boys and girls spoke of embracing and kissing (necking) as getting to first base. Second base was deep kissing, plus groping and fondling this and… More
Hooking Up: What Life Was Like at the Turn of the Second Millennium: An American’s World
– Hooking Up (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2000).Excerpt: By the year 2000, the term “working class” had fallen into disuse in the United States, and “proletariat” was so obsolete it was known only to a few bitter… More
I Am Charlotte Simmons
– New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux: 2004.Summary from Publisher: Dupont University-the Olympian halls of learning housing the cream of America’s youth, the roseate Gothic spires and manicured lawns suffused with tradition .… 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
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
Pornoviolence
– Esquire, July 1967. Reprinted in Mauve Gloves & Madmen, Clutter and Vine.The Birds and the Bees
– Harper's Magazine, October 1978.The Great Relearning
– The American Spectator, December 1987.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
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
Hooking Up
– New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2000.Summary from Publisher: Only yesterday boys and girls spoke of embracing and kissing (necking) as getting to first base. Second base was deep kissing, plus groping and fondling this and… More
Hooking Up: What Life Was Like at the Turn of the Second Millennium: An American’s World
– Hooking Up (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2000).Excerpt: By the year 2000, the term “working class” had fallen into disuse in the United States, and “proletariat” was so obsolete it was known only to a few bitter… More
I Am Charlotte Simmons
– New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux: 2004.Summary from Publisher: Dupont University-the Olympian halls of learning housing the cream of America’s youth, the roseate Gothic spires and manicured lawns suffused with tradition .… 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
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
Pornoviolence
– Esquire, July 1967. Reprinted in Mauve Gloves & Madmen, Clutter and Vine.The Birds and the Bees
– Harper's Magazine, October 1978.The Great Relearning
– The American Spectator, December 1987.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
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
Hooking Up
– New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2000.Summary from Publisher: Only yesterday boys and girls spoke of embracing and kissing (necking) as getting to first base. Second base was deep kissing, plus groping and fondling this and… More
Hooking Up: What Life Was Like at the Turn of the Second Millennium: An American’s World
– Hooking Up (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2000).Excerpt: By the year 2000, the term “working class” had fallen into disuse in the United States, and “proletariat” was so obsolete it was known only to a few bitter… More
I Am Charlotte Simmons
– New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux: 2004.Summary from Publisher: Dupont University-the Olympian halls of learning housing the cream of America’s youth, the roseate Gothic spires and manicured lawns suffused with tradition .… 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
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