1988, Tom Wolfe on New York, “monstrous character”

An innovative journalist, like a Truman Capote, Tom Wolfe, conservative and close to the Republican Party, was also a renowned writer. In “The pyre of vanities”, in 1987, he portrayed with a sharp gaze the New York of his time, a city he saw as subject to racial and social tensions. A gloomy picture of America at the end of the 20th century that resonates with the United States of today.