Gore Vidal
Remembering Gore Vidal
Fourteen years ago, my then boss, Matt d’Ancona sent me off to interview Gore Vidal. I’ll always be grateful to…
The fire and fury of America’s abortion debate
I wonder at times how some of my fellow hacks in America get out of bed in the morning. The…
Why night-clubbing in New York is a risky business
New York The acerbic writer Gore Vidal was once asked which period of history he would choose to have lived…
Trump’s Art of the Executive Order
The Executive Order is political weakness at its most powerful. The spectacle of Donald Trump adding his Sharpie-stroke to the…
Rory Kinnear is less Macbeth, more a tetchy manager of an Amazon warehouse
The Best Man by Gore Vidal is set during a fictional American election in 1960. Two gifted candidates seek their…
Gore Vidal, wannabe aristocrat and proud degenerate
History for Gore Vidal was a vehicle to be ridden in triumph, perhaps as in an out-take from Ben-Hur, which…
'A little bit of rape is good for a man's soul': the outrageous life of Norman Mailer
Heroically brave and mad, prodigious in his industry and appetites, Norman Mailer was an altogether excessive figure. Since his death…
