Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

He called The New York Times, where his novels and essays had sometimes gotten less than favorable reviews, "the typhoid fever of American journalism." He pronounced Southern literature “a quilting ...

Eugene Luther Gore Vidal (born Eugene Louis Vidal; October 3, 1925 – July 31, 2012) was an American writer and public intellectual known for his epigrammatic wit. His novels and essays interrogated ...

Empire of Self: A Life of Gore Vidal, Doubleday Books, 480 pages. $35. A chance meeting in Italy in the mid-1980s soon blossomed into a friendship that survived despite Vidal’s notorious prickliness ...

Michael Stuhlbarg, Freya Mavor and Nikolai Kinski have joined the cast of Gore, Netflix‘s upcoming bio of author Gore Vidal starring Kevin Spacey in the title role. The newcomers follow the previously ...

The best parts of “Empire of Self” are the brief interludes between chapters, when we are in the moment with Gore Vidal and his friend Jay Parini. There we can see, by turns, the imperious Gore and ...

In November 2013, a little over a year after Gore Vidal died, observers were surprised to discover that the writer had left his entire estate to Harvard University, cutting out friends, relatives, and ...

“Anarcissist is someone better looking than you are”: Gore Vidal, who made many such wicked formulations, died in 2012 at the age of 86, but this wholly readable biography by Jay Parini was in the ...