Henry Allen

October 20, 2012
Tom Wolfe, Wasp With No Sting
Reading a Tom Wolfe novel is like spending a very long day at a theme park, several days, really—each of his four novels runs to more than 700 pages.
September 4, 2012
When Christopher Hitchens Met His Match
The proof that there is no afterlife is that Christopher Hitchens is not sending us columns, essays, books, perversities, aperçus and polemics from it.The closest we have so...
March 13, 2012
America in All Its Ugly Beauty
On rainy days when I was a kid, I'd lie on the living-room floor and page very slowly through a book called "Modern American Painting."To a 9-year-old mind uncluttered by art...