“Gore Vidal is America’s premier man of letters,” says Jay Parini in his introduction to The Selected Essays of Gore Vidal, and if after reading Vidal on William Dean Howells, Tennessee Williams, ...

A review of United States by Gore Vidal.. United States collects 114 essays written by Gore Vidal over the last four decades. Despite the reproduction of Jasper Johns’s forty-eight-star flag on the ...

They just don’t make writers like they used to. Gore Vidal, a man who was part author, part playwright, part essayist, and part political activist, died yesterday at age 86 from complications of ...

American writer Gore Vidal, who chronicled the political and cultural landscape of the United States in historical and contemporary novels, essays and plays, has died at the age of 86. Vidal's nephew ...

Edmund Wilson : nineteenth-century man -- Dawn Powell: queen of the golden age -- Lost New York -- The romance of Sinclair Lewis -- Twain on the grand tour -- Reply to a critic -- Twain's letters -- ...

LOS ANGELES - Gore Vidal, the author, playwright, politician and commentator whose novels, essays, plays and opinions were stamped by his immodest wit and unconventional wisdom, died Tuesday, his ...

"I used to be the handsomest man in Rome. Now I'm just another ruin," quipped writer Gore Vidal when he was 50. Or characterizing himself, he once said, "I am exactly as I appear. There is no warm, ...

From Washington to Hollywood, American culture is now defined by score settling. But what do centuries of feuding have to teach us about getting even? By Mark Harris, M.H. Miller and Minju Pak Try ...

Adapting Tennessee Williams' "Suddenly, Last Summer" for the screen, he slyly defied both the Production Code and the Catholic Church, showing other writers they didn't have to bowdlerize their work.

Gore Vidal, the author, playwright, politician and commentator whose novels, essays, plays and opinions were stamped by his immodest wit and unconventional wisdom, died Tuesday night, his nephew said.