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Vanity Fair
March 9, 2018
The Cold War is the comeback geezer of dramatic genres, the original, minatory “Winter Is Coming.” The genre that gave us doomsday nail-biters (Fail Safe), let-it-rip satire (Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb), cold-sweat fever dreams (The Manchurian Candidate), and penitential studiesÃÂ ...
The New York Review of Books
March 3, 2018
James Wolcott's review in the London Review of Books was the longest and nastiest. It began with a quote from ... What was Edwin Frank, the editor of New York Review Books, thinking when he decided to reprint Making It? Had he seen virtues in the book that the fog of schadenfreude had obscured in 1967? Would a newÃÂ ...
Vanity Fair
January 25, 2018
In the quarter-century since Vanity Fair launched the Hollywood Issue, show business has changed in fundamental ways, as have magazines. .... Top: V.F. features editor Jane Sarkin and Annie Leibovitz review wardrobe options with Jessica Diehl; Bottom: Annie with the photo team and Michael ShannonÃÂ ...
Vanity Fair
December 22, 2017
How do you solve a problem like Lena? It may not be the most pressing musical question before the nation, yet it must be addressed, otherwise Lena Dunham—writer, director, actor, essayist, memoirist, and varsity-league exhibitionist—will persist in being an irksome source of distraction, like a moth flapping against a bareÃÂ ...
Vanity Fair
December 1, 2017
Subscribe to Vanity Fair today. ... disgraced men, a human laptop compared with beanbags of complication such as Weinstein, Toback, Spacey, CK, and Leon Wieseltier, the former New Republic literary editor fired from his new post after numerous women recounted their run-ins with his lechery during his previous tenure.
Vanity Fair
October 6, 2017
It is my dearly beloved hope (yours too, I trust) that it won't take another presidential election to expel the Desecrator in Chief from the premises, to liberate us from the otiose spectacle of Donald Trump tramping over the Constitution in his golf spikes and exercising his tweeting thumbs at the expense of decency, democracy,ÃÂ ...
Vanity Fair
September 10, 2017
If nothing else (and there's plenty else), The Deuce, premiering Sunday on HBO, gets midtown crudball New York in the 70s dead right. It specifically nails the early 70s, when the corruption and cynicism of the Nixon Watergate scandal infiltrated every pore. Other recent 70s-set series—Vinyl, theÃÂ ...
Vanity Fair
June 28, 2017
I've always found the attraction of sadomasochism a bit of a puzzler. I understand its theatrical appeal—the Catwoman dominatrix outfit, the dripping dungeon, the nifty props (whips, candles, cat-o'-nine-tails)—but, from the perspective of the submissive, all that kneeling, groveling, and ee-owing under the booted heels ofÃÂ ...
Vanity Fair
December 31, 1999
This is strictly, sketchily anecdotal, so don't strap me to the wall and drill for data, but listening to fellow liberal neurotic Democrats over the last year, I detect a sense of abandonment. Of Obandonment, to be more precise. Obama, Obama, where art thou? The Bat Signal scours the city night in vain for thee. Think of itÃÂ ...
Vanity Fair
January 25, 2018
I won't bore you with the details of my complex emotions right now, but I will say that being the editor of Vanity Fair may well be one of the most extraordinary .... Nick Tosches, Matt Tyrnauer, Benjamin Wallace, Francis Wheen, Jim Windolf, Ned Zeman, and our iconic columnists James Wolcott and Michael Kinsley, and youÃÂ ...
Vanity Fair
January 25, 2018
In the quarter-century since Vanity Fair launched the Hollywood Issue, show business has changed in fundamental ways, as have magazines. ... Top: V.F. features editor Jane Sarkin and Annie Leibovitz review wardrobe options with Jessica Diehl; Bottom: Annie with the photo team and Michael ShannonÃÂ ...
Kaplan Herald
January 1, 2018
Here are the facts Vanity Fair and James Wolcott would have learned had they spent five minutes on the telephone engaging in rudimentary fact-checking: (1) Lori worked in my annex office in Okaloosa County, Florida. (2) I met her no more than three times; I was never alone with her. (3) I didn't leaveÃÂ ...
Vanity Fair
December 22, 2017
How do you solve a problem like Lena? It may not be the most pressing musical question before the nation, yet it must be addressed, otherwise Lena Dunham—writer, director, actor, essayist, memoirist, and varsity-league exhibitionist—will persist in being an irksome source of distraction, like a moth flapping against a bareÃÂ ...
Vanity Fair
December 1, 2017
As a dramatis persona, Halperin is probably the least compelling of 2017's hit parade of disgraced men, a human laptop compared with beanbags of complication such as Weinstein, Toback, Spacey, CK, and Leon Wieseltier, the former New Republic literary editor fired from his new post after numerous women recountedÃÂ ...
Vanity Fair
October 6, 2017
It is my dearly beloved hope (yours too, I trust) that it won't take another presidential election to expel the Desecrator in Chief from the premises, to liberate us from the otiose spectacle of Donald Trump tramping over the Constitution in his golf spikes and exercising his tweeting thumbs at the expense of decency, democracy,ÃÂ ...
Vanity Fair
September 10, 2017
If nothing else (and there's plenty else), The Deuce, premiering Sunday on HBO, gets midtown crudball New York in the 70s dead right. It specifically nails the early 70s, when the corruption and cynicism of the Nixon Watergate scandal infiltrated every pore. Other recent 70s-set series—Vinyl, theÃÂ ...
Vanity Fair
June 28, 2017
I've always found the attraction of sadomasochism a bit of a puzzler. I understand its theatrical appeal—the Catwoman dominatrix outfit, the dripping dungeon, the nifty props (whips, candles, cat-o'-nine-tails)—but, from the perspective of the submissive, all that kneeling, groveling, and ee-owing under the booted heels ofÃÂ ...
Vanity Fair
June 2, 2017
Max Boot, military historian and journalist, is another member of the neocon camp who has mounted up against the geopolitical fecklessness of Trump, and there are times, I confess, when I even find myself nodding in agreement with the anti-Trump gibes of Bill Kristol, editor-at-large of The Weekly Standard and one of theÃÂ ...
Vanity Fair
April 28, 2017
For the first time since the ancient mists of the Chester A. Arthur administration, back when presidents had whiskers and posed for daguerreotypes, the country finds itself without an active, gracious, fully engaged First Lady, one half of a matching set. Melania Trump, the nominal First Lady, has been teleported into theÃÂ ...
Vanity Fair
March 22, 2017
With the death of The New York Review of Books's co-founder and monarchical editor, Robert B. Silvers, falling so quickly on the scuffed heels of the death of columnist, reporter, novelist, and Norman Mailer's former running mate for mayor of New York, Jimmy Breslin, it was the end of an era delivered withÃÂ ...
Vanity Fair
March 3, 2017
Internet clickbait promotes mental tooth decay, squirting synthetic controversy out of a can of Reddi-wip, but an article by Eileen Jones on January 9 went out of its way to swirl it on extra thick. Headlined AGAINST MERYL STREEP, the indictment declared, “Meryl Streep's speechifying at the Golden Globes was the worstÃÂ ...
New York Times
November 13, 2017
James Wolcott is a columnist at Vanity Fair and the author, most recently, of “Lucking Out: My Life Getting Down and Semi-Dirty in the Seventies ...
Vanity Fair
November 5, 2017
Is the presidency of Donald Trump the price America paid for Hugh Hefner's sins? Did Playboy magazine's gospel of monogrammed hedonism ultimately ...
Splinter (blog)
October 27, 2017
James Wolcott wrote in 1988 for Vanity Fair, “The New Republic has a ... And as literary editor, Wieseltier published very few women, at least at ...
Vanity Fair
October 6, 2017
It is my dearly beloved hope (yours too, I trust) that it won't take another presidential election to expel the Desecrator in Chief from the premises, to liberate us ...
Vanity Fair
October 2, 2017
Subscribe to Vanity Fair today. ... In “The Potemkin Prince,” Contributing Editor Rich Cohen (like me, a veteran of the old Observer) traces ... the typos in presidential tweetstorms—columnist James Wolcott foresees the inevitability of a truncated ...
Vanity Fair
September 10, 2017
If nothing else (and there's plenty else), The Deuce, premiering Sunday on HBO, gets midtown crudball New York in the 70s dead right.
Vanity Fair
September 8, 2017
Elisabeth Bumiller, Washington editor of The New York Times. Ashley Parker, White House reporter for The Washington Post. Jenna Johnson, political reporter ...
Vanity Fair
June 28, 2017
I've always found the attraction of sadomasochism a bit of a puzzler. I understand its theatrical appeal—the Catwoman dominatrix outfit, the dripping dungeon, ...
Vanity Fair
June 2, 2017
Subscribe to Vanity Fair today. ... with the anti-Trump gibes of Bill Kristol, editor-at-large of The Weekly Standard and one of the archbishops of neoconservatism.
Vanity Fair
April 28, 2017
For the first time since the ancient mists of the Chester A. Arthur administration, back when presidents had whiskers and posed for daguerreotypes, the country ...
Vanity Fair
March 22, 2017
With the death of The New York Review of Books's co-founder and monarchical editor, Robert B. Silvers, falling so quickly on the scuffed heels ...
Vanity Fair
March 3, 2017
Internet clickbait promotes mental tooth decay, squirting synthetic controversy out of a can of Reddi-wip, but an article by Eileen Jones on January 9 went out of ...
Vanity Fair
February 21, 2017
Lawfare managing editor and Brookings fellow, Hennessey adds a note of sobriety to this all-star list, her title and perhaps temperament not ...
The Australian Financial Review
September 29, 2017
The departure of long-serving "Vanity Fair" editor Graydon Carter ... like James Wolcott and Marie Brenner spoke of their gratitude and grief.
Buffalo News
September 29, 2017
And yet what a glorious tradition writing about TV there was been: Michael Arlen, Clive James, John Leonard, James Wolcott, David FosterÃÂ ...
New York Times
September 23, 2017
The staff of Vanity Fair was saluting the magazine's longtime editor, ... like James Wolcott and Marie Brenner spoke of their gratitude and grief.
Los Angeles Times
September 21, 2017
New Yorker Editor David Remnick confirmed her death, but did not ... James Wolcott, among others who knew Shawn, wrote in Vanity Fair thatÃÂ ...
Village Voice
September 20, 2017
... of Richard Goldstein, Robert Christgau, Tom Carson, James Wolcott, .... The Voice may be bigger than print and ink or any owner, editor,ÃÂ ...
Vanity Fair
September 11, 2017
If nothing else (and there's plenty else), The Deuce, premiering Sunday on HBO, gets midtown crudball New York in the 70s dead right.
Vanity Fair
September 9, 2017
... photography, and thought-provoking features, subscribe now to Vanity Fair magazine. .... Elisabeth Bumiller, Washington editor of The New York Times.
Washington Examiner
August 17, 2017
The liberal writer James Wolcott wrote a piece for Vanity Fair in March arguing that, "The alt-left can't match [the alt-right] for strength,ÃÂ ...
The Guardian
August 17, 2017
The centrist Vanity Fair writer James Wolcott is among those who has previously savaged an “alt-left” straw man of his own creation.
FAIR
August 16, 2017
The alt-right and alt-left “caterwaul some of the same tunes in different keys,” writes Vanity Fair columnist James Wolcott (3/3/17). PresidentÃÂ ...
Jacobin magazine
August 14, 2017
This middle-of-the-road tongue-clucking appeared earlier this year, in a Vanity Fair article by James Wolcott, pointing a finger at the so-calledÃÂ ...
Jacobin magazine
August 13, 2017
This middle-of-the-road tongue-clucking appeared earlier this year, in a Vanity Fair article by James Wolcott, pointing a finger at the so-calledÃÂ ...
POLITICO Magazine
July 21, 2017
As Vanity Fair's James Wolcott recently noted, Trump practiced the “time-honored art of blame shifting” to destroy his factotum Spicer, raging atÃÂ ...
The Mesa Journal News
July 13, 2017
... which came from a 1997 Vanity Fair article by James Wolcott. ... thirty books and is the founder and editor of Creative Nonfiction magazine.
Vanity Fair
June 28, 2017
I've always found the attraction of sadomasochism a bit of a puzzler. I understand its theatrical appeal—the Catwoman dominatrix outfit, the dripping dungeon,ÃÂ ...
Vanity Fair
June 2, 2017
... and thought-provoking features, subscribe now to Vanity Fair magazine. ... of Bill Kristol, editor-at-large of The Weekly Standard and one of the archbishops ofÃÂ ...
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