In the following review, Sobran applauds Buckley's descriptive abilities in Steaming to Bamboola, but believes the book lacks Buckley's personal glimpses and cohesive plotting.
Samuel...
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In the following review, Foreman praises the unpredictability and the variety of subjects discussed in Wry Martinis.
At the end of our phone call I asked the genial fellow who assigns book reviews ...
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In the following review, Levi argues that the humor and satire in Little Green Men is too reserved and tame.
Back in the late 1970s, while a massive truckers' strike was choking the motor-wa...
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In the following review, Charles offers a positive assessment of Little Green Men, calling the work “a prankster's greatest fantasy.”
The key to an April Fools' Day pran...
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In the following review, Stuttaford examines the political satire and humorous situations in Little Green Men.
Space aliens are a nasty, bug-eyed lot, always plotting to subjugate the galaxy and fi...
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In the following review, Heilbrunn offers a positive assessment of No Way to Treat a First Lady, calling the novel a “heroic and pioneering effort.”
Christopher Buckley is, to borrow ...
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In the following review, Janos praises Buckley's insider knowledge and comic perceptions in The White House Mess.
In the dark years of the late 1960s, when Vietnam, civil rights protests and...
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In the following review, Wolcott expresses his disappointment with The White House Mess, arguing that the novel lacks the acerbic wit necessary for successful satire.
Christopher Buckley's T...
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In the following excerpt, Edwards offers a negative assessment of The White House Mess, contending that Buckley's satire is bland and imbecilic.
It may seem some distance from a ludlum to a ...
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In the following review, Simonds praises Buckley for maintaining the balance between satire and insight in The White House Mess.
Once in too great a while comes along a book that does in, for good,...
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In the following interview, Buckley discusses his writing career, his body of work, and his future projects.
Christopher Buckley has just returned from a two-week sailing voyage across the Atlantic...
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In the following review, Miner commends Buckley's suspenseful narration in Wet Work, finding it well written, unnerving, and humorous.
Each time some poor kid croaks on coke, there's ...
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"It's been quite something," said Christopher Buckley, of the deluge of phone calls that he and his family had received about the death of his mother, Pat Buckley, on April 15. Mr. Buckley, a humor...
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Last night at a party for The Atlantic Monthly's 150th anniversary, held on the stage of the NYU student center auditorium, the aging cable-access porn star Robin Byrd was looking around the room....
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The connection between Christopher Buckley, the sort of writer whose novels are invariably described as “wickedly†something or other (clever, satirical, entertain...
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As you may have been able to tell from The New York Times' diabetes series (following its series on gold), it's Pulitzer season and everyone's trying to jump on the multi-part bandwagon. Even Marke...
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Following the world premiere last Friday of the yet-to-be-acquired Thank You for Smoking at the Toronto International Film Festival, Adam Brody, one of the film’s stars, hung out in the makes...
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In her half-century-plus in Manhattan, Pat Buckley has been known as a socialite, a fashion icon, a lady who lunches, a social X-ray, a grande dame, a superb hostess and the woman behind the man be...
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“I don’t think I’ve kept in touch with Bob over the years,” said Washington Post executive editor Leonard Downie Jr.
Mr. Downie, on the phone from Washington, D.C., on Dec....
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Critical Review by Joseph Sobran
Goodbye, Pat Buckley
