Thomas Mallon

Sep 19, 2024 | washingtonpost.com | Thomas Mallon

Pamela Churchill, drink in hand, at the Corviglia Club in St. Moritz, Switzerland. (Henry Clarke/Conde Nast/Getty Images)Review by Thomas MallonSeptember 19, 2024 at 9:00 a.m. EDTLong before the current season of Kamala, bringer of joy to her party’s ranks, there was the decade of Pamela — more lengthily, Pamela Digby Churchill Hayward Harriman — who energized dispirited Democrats in the age of Reagan with limousine loads of cash, glamour and encouragement.

Aug 2, 2024 | airmail.news | Thomas Mallon

The Mysterious Mrs. Nixon: The Life and Times of Washington’s Most Private First Lady by Heath Hardage Lee Asked late in his life to explain the under-appreciation of Pat Nixon, her husband kept the expletives to a minimum but answered with some force: “Because she was my wife. If she had been the wife of a liberal, my God, they would have canonized her.” True enough, but Mrs. Nixon’s considerable, if quiet, contributions as First Lady were never fully valued in Nixon’s own White House.

May 20, 2024 | newyorker.com | Thomas Mallon

The Great American Novel is a long-dead cultural aspiration, extinguished by a healthy realization that the country is too big and too varied to generate any singular, definitive volume. American novelists tend, in our time, to earn public recognition of greatness in a steady, incremental (one is almost tempted to say un-American) way: through the long-term production of many books that arrive with a certain regularity and are roughly on the same scale, one to the next.

Jan 2, 2024 | decine21.com | Thomas Mallon |Ron Nyswaner |Dee L. Johnson |Jack P. Solomon |Anya Leta

Dec 14, 2023 | openthemagazine.com | Thomas Mallon

Books | Best of 2023 Pratap Bhanu Mehta | William Dalrymple | David Davidar | Aatish Taseer | KR Meera | Manu S Pillai | Janice Pariat | Amit Chaudhuri | Jerrry Pinto | Namita Gokhale | Tishani Doshi PRATAP BHANU MEHTA, Political scientist and columnist THE YEAR’S HIGH points were three books by scholars’ scholars. Raza Foundation and Setu Prakashan have published the incomparable philosopher, musicologist and intellectual historian, the late Mukund Lath’s Pratyanngmukh. It is a riveting...