Tag: Sexuality

Books

Pornoviolence

Esquire, July 1967. Reprinted in Mauve Gloves & Madmen, Clutter and Vine.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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