Tom Wolfe

A photo including Jeff Daniels and Sarah Jones in the series A Man in Full on Netflix

Jeff Daniels’ ‘A Man in Full’ Swings With Big Dick Energy

David E. Kelley’s adaptation of Tom Wolfe’s best-seller is a fleet, appealingly messy watch, buoyed by Daniels’ performance as a blustery, bloviating capitalist predator.

Nick Schager

‘AN URGENT MATTER’

The Odd Feud Between the King’s Tailor and an NYC Lawyer

Ed Hayes says he just wants his dues from the English suitmaker literally fit for a king. The company claims he’s just playing “make-believe.”

Michael Daly

DANDY AS GENIUS

Tom Wolfe Dies and Trades White Suit for Angel’s Wings

The literary provocateur who almost single-handedly created the New Journalism and went on to write some of the most hilariously scathing fiction about modern life has died at 88.

Bill Morris

R.I.P.

Writer Tom Wolfe Dies at 88

His colorful language ushered in the era of “New Journalism” in the 1960s.

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Bonfire of the Vanities

Tom Wolfe on Fake News

The father of New Journalism says he’s ‘not surprised’ by what happens when the press can’t control the facts in the Donald Trump era.

Lizzie Crocker

EXCERPT

Science Can’t Explain Our Gift of Gab

<p>In a passage from his latest book, <i>The Kingdom of Speech</i>, Tom Wolfe ponders why science has failed repeatedly to account for human speech, much less grasp what it means.</p>

Tom Wolfe

Tom Wolfe

Jeff Daniels’ ‘A Man in Full’ Swings With Big Dick Energy

The Odd Feud Between the King’s Tailor and an NYC Lawyer

Tom Wolfe Dies and Trades White Suit for Angel’s Wings

Writer Tom Wolfe Dies at 88

Tom Wolfe on Fake News

Science Can’t Explain Our Gift of Gab

Tom Wolfe’s Iconic!!! White!!! Suit!!!

Beguiling if Unlikely Travel Books

Gail Sheehy Books Passage to the Past

Stat-Happy News Ignores Narrative

Tom Wolfe: Novels, Journalism, Manliness and President Obama (in That Order)