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Wolfe has been chronicling the behavior of the city's haves and have-mores since 1962, when he joined the New York Herald Tribune as a general-assignment reporter and quickly became the main attraction of the newspaper's Sunday magazine supplement. His timing, like his trademark white suit, was...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Haves and the Have-Mores THE BONFIRE OF THE VANITIES by Tom Wolfe; Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 659 pages; $19.95 | 11/9/1987 | See Source »

The only people who could care less about Dogs than the audience are the characters. They are disaffected refugees from the stifling mores of their middle-class parents. Rebellion is a fine thing, but this motley bunch of outcasts replace the materialism and hypocrisy of their bourgeois upbringing with complete...

Author: By Aline Brosh, | Title: Dog On Screen | 10/16/1987 | See Source »

His first book, Oh, God!, provided the base for three George Burns movies. His third sold few hardback copies, but everyone knew its name after Dustin Hoffman and Meryl Streep appeared in the film adaptation of Kramer vs. Kramer. This latest work, too, is scheduled to go before the cameras...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mid-Life Throes 50 | 9/7/1987 | See Source »

Sailors once dreaded the blue Sargasso Sea, believing its gulfweed could entangle them forever. The protagonist of William McPherson's novel fears entrapment in other currents. Andrew MacAllister, 40, an American playwright, is lured by the danger of adultery while in London to open one of his plays. He feels...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Summer Reading | 7/27/1987 | See Source »

Author Louis Auchincloss has produced some 30 books of fiction, an impressive amount in anyone's case, but even more so for a Wall Street lawyer, recently retired, who writes in his spare time. This productivity has been devoted primarily to variations on a central theme: the manners and mores...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Examples Skinny Island | 5/11/1987 | See Source »

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