Literature
Goodbye to Gore Vidal, America's Biographer and Champion
Remembering one of my favorite writers
Whitewashing John Steinbeck
Why partisan politics and virulent racism were cut from the celebrated "non-fiction" road book Travels With Charley
Sucking in the American Century
A stunt novel tracks the rise of the state and the decline of the country.
The Power Politics of the Prize
The Nobel has long been about both politics and literature.