Buckley, William F., Jr. (1925—)
William F. Buckley Jr. found fame as the voice of conservatism. Founder of the National Review, the conservative journal of opinion of which he was editor-in-ch...
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Author, editor, and political activist, William F. Buckley, Jr. (born 1925) helped to create the modern conservative political movement. His journal, National Review, prepared the way for the presiden...
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When William F. Buckley, Jr., stepped down as editor in chief of the National Review in November 1990, he ended day-to-day involvement with the magazine he founded in 1955 to present a "responsible di...
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Critical Essay by Jane Larkin Crain
[Stained Glass,] an elegant and engaging tale of East-West skulduggery in postwar Germany, genially observes all the conventions of the first-rate spy story and at...
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Critical Essay by Robert Lekachman
As an adventure novelist, William F. Buckley has done it again with Who's on First?. For journals of opinion, aristocratic politics tend to become a drag aft...
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Critical Essay by Newgate Callendar
Americanism, Catholicism, the Red Menace, the idiocy of the liberals—that is what "Stained Glass" is all about. It is a tract, in black and wh...
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Critical Essay by Ronald Berman
Stained Glass is more of a novel than a thriller, and it differs from the idols of its marketplace in some interesting ways. The first is in its sense of character. Th...
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Critical Essay by Robin W. Winks
[Detective fiction has come so far as] to embrace political philosophy in the person of William F. Buckley Jr., that essayist, columnist, hymnodist of all things cons...
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Critical Essay by Melvyn Bragg
[In Stained Glass] we have what can unblushingly be called a rattling good yarn, a firmly built and racy thriller, a perfect read for a wet English summer.
More than...
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Critical Essay by Guernsey Le Pelley
If one word can be used to describe William Buckley's new suspense novel [Stained Glass] it is "absorbing" rather than "exciting...
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Critical Essay by Anatole Broyard
William F. Buckley Jr. is almost alone in using genuine political mischief as a source of wit in the spy novel. He raises the sort of questions that only the most na...
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Critical Essay by Jack Chatfield
I now understand enough about reviewing spy novels not to reveal the plot of this elegant and witty book set on the eve of the Sputnik launch. But it is safe to say t...
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On the morning of May 14th, a certain Dr. Henry Kissinger was remembering the time the late, great Patricial Taylor Buckley received a phone call at her house at about 8 a.m.
The hour, close friend...
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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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Former newspaper mogul Conrad Black was sentenced Monday to 6 1/2 years in prison, far less than sought by prosecutors, for swindling shareholders in his Hollinger media empire out of $6 million."M...
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How perfect, for starters, that the surname be Churchill. How many of us, in the aftermath of 9/11, to the extent we could think at all, thought of Winston Churchill during Britain's grim days and ...
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On the brink of the publication of his first book, a memoir-cum-sociology-tract called Privilege: Harvard and the Education of the Ruling Class, Ross Gregory Douthat was looking earnest and somber ...
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Like the conductor of his own chamber orchestra, Garry Wills presides over three metal music stands while at work in his study, his chosen "scores" including dictionaries of Greek, Latin and Italia...
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Like Cambridge and Hollywood, New York is considered a hotbed of left-wing, blue-state ideology, the place where liberal Democrats come to think big thoughts and discuss big ideas.
But it may be t...
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Just how powerful is The New York Times? That’s the question asked by one of the paper’s own senior correspondents, Anthony DePalma, in his new book, The Man Who Invented Fidel. In cons...
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Just how powerful is The New York Times? That’s the question asked by one of the paper’s own senior correspondents, Anthony DePalma, in his new book, The Man Who Invented Fidel. In cons...
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Buckley, William F., Jr. (1925—)
William F. Buckley, Jr.
William F(rank) Buckley, Jr.
Critical Essay by Jane Larkin Crain
Pat Buckley, Remembered at the Met
