“Woodward is hardly trying to cripple a presidency. (He's already done that, right?) But like his fellow permanent Washingtonians, he thinks it only fitting to put Clinton in his place.”
Originally published June 28, 1994
“Sinatra remained white America’s last completely satisfying definition of masculine style — to somewhat disconcerting effect, let me add”
Originally published May 26, 1998
“In America, poetic truths have real-life consequences, and Mailer is one of the few American intellectuals to perceive this fact as both fundamental and fundamentally good”
Originally published February 14, 1983
“Here's a slogan for the '90s: in the future, everyone will be ahead of their time for 15 minutes”
Originally published September 1, 1988
"Lester ennobled the ludicrous inner life of pop fans by telling the truth about it — by discerning that inner lives, and not music, were what pop music was about"
Originally published December 1, 1987
On the silver anniversary of Tricky Dick's demise we revisit Tom Carson's barn-burning send-off to the 37th POTUS
Originally published May 3, 1994
The distinctively modern aspect of Nixon is that he can’t help betraying an awareness of the artifice in himself
September 1, 1987