A James Wolcott think piece on why selfies are "here to stay" is just what the America of 2007 has been waiting for.

What Twilight Tells Us About Kids Today

Teen vampire drama Twilight arrives in theaters on Nov. 21. With a huge teen audience ramped up for it, cultural critics have already started deciphering the meaning of Twilight's popularity, a thankless task that resulted in a massive Vanity Fair photoshoot this month. For people who will take anything seriously,…

Choire

6/05/07 11:31am

"The beads of Peggy Noonan's pearl necklace have come unstrung, clattering and scattering across the floor like the beautiful remains of a broken dream..." [James Wolcott]

Gopnik And Wolcott Draw Their Party Lines

Doree

3/28/07 1:26pm

Last evening, a genteel literary crowd gathered at the Tribeca loft apartment of Slate editor Jacob Weisberg and his wife, Domino editor Deborah Needleman, to f te the cultural critic and historian Clive James. His new book, Cultural Amnesia, is a kind of highbrow Cliffs Notes for Important Figures of, mostly, the…

Media Bubble: Why Are These Jews Smiling?

Choire

2/12/07 9:16am

The New York Post's and NY Observer publisher Jared Kushner's PR man Steven Rubenstein spoonfeeds NYP media columnist Keith Kelly super-fun-happy-times-yay-team item on New York Observer redesign and accompanying editor 'n' publisher lovefest. [NYP]

James Wolcott Finally Does the Adam Gopnik Takedown We've All Been Waiting For

Doree Shafrir

2/07/07 2:40pm

For anyone who ever rolled their eyes at one of Adam Gopnik's overly precious New Yorker pieces, or had the misfortune of sitting through Paris to the Moon, his collection of yarns about living with his perfectly winsome children and appropriately acerbic wife in Paris, Vanity Fair contributing editor James Wolcott's …

If He Read It: James Wolcott Liveblogs The O.J. Book

Emily Gould

1/22/07 9:20am

Even though Newsweek already excerpted the only chapter that anyone remotely cares about, James Wolcott breathlessly trumpets Vanity Fair's acquisition of "the whole enchilada" — a shiny new hardcover edition of If He Did It — today on VF.com. (Now we know who was bidding on Ebay!) So what's the book (well, the part…

Media Bubble: 'Times' to Send Its Sons to War

Jesse

6/07/06 4:18pm

• Times Baghdad bureau likes 'em young; Times Mag editor Gerry Marzorati likes 'em late-30-something and in business. [NYO]
• And James Wolcott likes 'em monocled and on a compiliation DVD set. [New Criterion]
• Seth Mnookin says Da Vinci Code author Dan Brown is a plagiarist, if not necessarily by the legal…