Jonathan Clarke

Author Archive

  • Dec 1, 2025
    College football coverage today reflects the journalistic shifts of the last three decades. It’s fast and informal, with news of injuries, coaching changes, and recruiting...
  • Mar 17, 2025
    Any proper biography of Gay Talese would also be a history of modern American journalism, if only incidentally. Talese, now 93, started in the field as a teenager, publishing...
  • Jan 21, 2025
    In 2004, I attended a performance of Gatz, a stage adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby that, in addition to witty interpretations of the novel’s key...
  • Jan 2, 2025
    In 1967, Norman Podhoretz, then the 34-year-old editor of Commentary, published a memoir, Making It, in which he confessed to a powerful drive for status, money, and other...