"I used to be the handsomest man in Rome. Now I'm just another ruin," quipped writer Gore Vidal when he was 50. Or characterizing himself, he once said, "I am exactly as I appear. There is no warm, ...

Gore Vidal author and playwright died Tuesday at his Hollywood Hills home from complications due to pneumonia. Bookworm host Michael Silverblatt writes: When I learned of the death of Gore Vidal last ...

Gore Vidal, eccentric public intellectual extraordinaire, has long been a darling of the left, though often surrounded by controversy. In recent years, prompted by increasingly bizarre on-screen ...

In the early aughts, thanks to my then position as editor at large of this publication, I found myself in the middle of the last great feud in Gore Vidal’s long, august line of literary battles.

A Gore Vidal biopic, canceled at the streamer in 2017, would've been an early Netflix prestige original. But then, allegations against Kevin Spacey killed the film in post-production. IndieWire speaks ...

"Celebrated novelist, essayist, critic, and controversialist Vidal ranges freely over his remarkable life with the signature wit and literary elegance that is uniquely his. From his desks in Ravello ...