
Our Critic's Tip Sheet on Current Reading: Gore Vidal vs. Midge Decter; Sodomy Laws; and Dan's Hamptons
WHEN GORE VIDAL is on a tear, outrage and wit blend to produce a new, delicious and deadly substance, like sulfuric Champagne or a napalm martini. Consider, for example, an especially corrosive—and funny—essay on the twinned destiny of gays and Jews, "Pink Triangle and Yellow Star," originally published in The Nation in 1981 and newly Read More