Over the past few days I have had the pleasure of being transported by the extraordinary literary craftmanship of Gore Vidal. His most recent memoir, Point to Point Navigation follows in the tradition of his early memoir, culling his memory for events in American and world history that he and his...
The 13th Amendment to the Constitution declared that "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction." Formally abolishing slavery in the...
It is often remarked upon that the sixth century B.C. contained an overflow of major figures in the history of world religion and philosophy. But what if these disparate persons were all linked by one figure, like an ancient six degrees of Kevin Bacon? In his sumptuous historical novel Creation, ...
Gore Vidal, 87 yaşında öldüğünde, geriye yalnızca romanlarıyla anımsanacak bir yazar imgesi bırakmadı bize, bıraktığı şey Amerikan kültür endüstrisinin bir insanın çevresinde nasıl biçimlendiğine dair izlenebilecek güçlü ve sıra dışı bir portre idi. Gore Vidal bir romancı olduğu kadar aynı zaman...
I just finished working my way through the late Gore Vidal’s magnificent series of political history novels spanning American history from the Revolutionary War through the Kennedy administration. Having sampled one, I was unable to stop until I reached the end.tThe seven well-researched and artf...
Once upon a time a friend of mine included Gore Vidal among his list of closeted anarchists. I have held Vidal in high regard ever since, despite having read precious little from him.The Last Empire: Essays 1992-2000 is simply the one volume of his two dozen plus books of essays and non-fiction...
Peggy Guggenheim led a rich and interesting life. Although, to her regret, her formal education did not extend beyond high school, she more than compensated for that deficiency by reading widely, traveling extensively, and immersing herself in a culture of writers and artists, many of whose care...