Out on a limb Selected writing, 1989-2021

Andrew Sullivan, 1963-

Book - 2021

The provocative social and political commentator Andrew Sullivan--the youngest ever editor of The New Republic, founding editor of The Daily Dish, hailed as one of the most influential journalists of the last three decades by The New York Times--presents a collection of his most iconic and powerful essays of social and political commentary from The New Republic, The Atlantic, The NYT Magazine, New York magazine, and more.

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Subjects
Genres
Literary Collections / Essays
Essays
Published
New York : Avid Reader Press 2021.
Language
English
Main Author
Andrew Sullivan, 1963- (author, -)
Edition
First Avid Reader Press hardcover edition
Item Description
Includes index.
Physical Description
xix, 548 pages ; 25 cm
ISBN
9781501155895
  • Introduction
  • Here Comes the Groom
  • August 27, 1989 The New Republic
  • The Two Faces of Bensonhurst
  • July 1, 1990 The New Republic
  • Gay Life, Gay Death: The Siege of a Subculture
  • December 17, 1990 The New Republic
  • Taken Unseriously
  • May 6, 1991 The New Republic
  • Quilt
  • November 9, 1992 The New Republic
  • The Politics of Homosexuality
  • May 10, 1993 The New Republic
  • Alone Again, Naturally
  • November 28, 1994 The New Republic
  • When Plagues End: Notes on the Twilight of an Epidemic
  • November 10, 1996 The New York Times
  • My America
  • November 24, 1996 The Sunday Times
  • The Princess Bride
  • September 21, 1997 The New Republic
  • Unsung Heroine
  • September 27, 1998 The New York Times
  • Going Down Screaming
  • October 11, 1998 The New York Times
  • What's So Bad about Hate?
  • September 26, 1999 The New York Times
  • The He Hormone
  • April 2, 2000 The New York Times Magazine
  • The "Invisible Man"
  • January 12, 2003 Time magazine
  • I Am Bear; Hear Me Roar
  • August 3, 2003 Salon
  • Integration Day
  • May 17, 2004 The New York Times
  • Log Cabin Republican
  • January 12, 2005 The Dish
  • Life Lesson
  • February 7, 2005 The New Republic
  • Superstar
  • April 17, 2005 The New Republic
  • Crisis of Faith
  • May 2, 2005 The New Republic
  • Still Here, So Sorry
  • June 21, 2005 The Advocate
  • The End of Gay Culture
  • October 24, 2005 The New Republic
  • The Abolition of Torture
  • December 19, 2005 The New Republic
  • Islamo-Bullies Get a Free Ride from the West
  • February 12, 2006 The Sunday Times
  • Gay Cowboys Embraced by Redneck Country
  • February 26, 2006 The Sunday Times
  • When Not Seeing Is Believing
  • October 2, 2006 Time magazine
  • The Reagan of the Left?
  • May 24, 2007 The Dish
  • A Married Man
  • August 21, 2007 The Dish
  • Goodbye to All That: Why Obama Matters
  • December 2007 The Atlantic
  • How Did I Get Iraq Wrong?
  • March 21, 2008 Slate
  • Phobia at the Gates
  • May 14, 2008 The Washington Post
  • Why I Blog
  • November 2008 The Atlantic
  • Republican Taliban Declare Jihad on Obama
  • February 15, 2009 The Sunday Times
  • Mad, Maddening America, the Wisest of All
  • February 22, 2009 The Sunday Times
  • Obama's Race Dream Is Swiftly Shackled
  • July 26, 2009 The Sunday Times
  • Leaving the Right
  • December 1, 2009 The Dish
  • Obama, Trimmer
  • December 2, 2009 The Dish
  • Dear Ta-Nehisi
  • December 1, 2011 The Dish
  • Why Continue to Build the Settlements?
  • March 30, 2012 The Dish
  • Christianity in Crisis
  • April 2, 2012 Newsweek
  • The First Elite Conservative to Say Enough
  • July 2, 2012 The Dish
  • Thatcher, Liberator
  • April 8, 2013 The Dish
  • Surprised by Grief
  • August 6, 2013 The Dish
  • Rush Limbaugh Knows Nothing about Christianity
  • December 3, 2013 The Dish
  • What Is the Meaning of Pope Francis?
  • December 17, 2013 The Dish
  • Democracies End When They Are Too Democratic
  • May 1, 2016 New York Magazine
  • I Used to Be a Human Being
  • September 19, 2016 New York Magazine
  • America and the Abyss
  • November 3, 2016 New York Magazine
  • America Wasn't Built for Humans
  • September 19, 2017 New York Magazine
  • Kaepernick's Message Is Getting Lost-Along with the Facts on Race and Police Violence
  • September 29, 2017 New York Magazine
  • We All Live on Campus Now
  • February 9, 2018 New York Magazine
  • The Poison We Pick
  • February 20, 2018 New York Magazine
  • Just Say Yes to Drugs
  • May 25, 2018 New York Magazine
  • Americas New Religions
  • December 7, 2018 New York Magazine
  • The Nature of Sex
  • February 1, 2019 New York Magazine
  • Why Joe Biden Might Be the Best Bet to Beat Trump
  • May 3, 2019 New York Magazine
  • A Plague Is an Apocalypse. But It Can Bring a New World.
  • July 21, 2020 New York Magazine
  • The Unbearable Whiteness of the Classics
  • February 5, 2021 The Weekly Dish
  • Two Sexes. Infinite Genders.
  • February 26, 2021 The Weekly Dish
  • Acknowledgments
  • Index
Review by Publisher's Weekly Review

Sixty essays from Sullivan (Virtually Normal), former editor of the New Republic, are collected in this frank critique of America's social and political culture. The pieces, which come from the New Republic, the New York Times and New York magazine, among other publications, are organized chronologically. "The Princess Bride," from 1997, studies the phenomenon of Princess Diana's fame, while 2007's "Goodbye to All That: Why Obama Matters" sees Sullivan arguing that the case for an Obama presidency "has less to do with him than with the moment he is meeting." "Why I Blog," from 2008, meanwhile, takes a look at Sullivan's early dabbling with online journalism, wherein he found blogging an "exhilarating literary liberation," and 2016's "Democracies End When They Are Too Democratic" uses Plato's Republic to study Trump's presidency. The author takes provocative views on such topics as campus culture (which he admonishes for turning "away from liberal education... toward the imperatives of an identity-based 'social justice' movement") and the concept of hate crimes (he's wary of them as "an oddly biased category")--and readers across the political spectrum will find themselves under fire. Fans of Sullivan's work are sure to enjoy having his intellectual curiosity and impassioned prose collected in one place. (Aug.)

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Review by Kirkus Book Review

The veteran journalist collects his controversial views on sex, religion, politics, and plagues. Sullivan, whose essays, reviews, articles, and blog posts have appeared in the New Republic (where he was an editor), the New York Times, New York magazine, and the Weekly Dish newsletter, gathers 60 pieces from the past three decades that serve as both a chronicle of his life and a record of significant transformations in American culture. Describing himself as having "a querulous, insistent curiosity that sometimes relishes the hostility it often provokes," Sullivan is not surprised to have incited strong responses: "An essay insisting on the biological roots of masculinity enraged some feminists; my opposition to 'hate crime' legislation maddened my fellow gays; my account of the moment AIDS in America no longer qualified as a plague was denounced." His attack on the use of torture by the Bush administration infuriated the right, just as his attack on critical race and gender theory incensed the left. As a gay man, Sullivan has lived through a sea change in attitudes about homosexuality and gender, from grudging allowances for domestic partnerships to the legalization of gay marriage. His own marriage, in 2007, seemed momentous. With mixed feelings, he observes the erosion of any "single gay identity, let alone a single look or style or culture." He argues that "distinctive gayness" was "integral" to gay identity. "It helped define us not only to the world but also to ourselves," he writes. "Letting go is as hard as it is liberating, as saddening as it is invigorating." Testosterone therapy, which he began in 2000 as a result of being HIV-positive, made him viscerally aware of the surge of energy, aggression, lust, and anger that resulted from what he called the "He Hormone." Other pieces reveal Sullivan's thoughts on Christianity, the death of his beloved beagle, Princess Diana as a cultural icon, Obama as a beacon of hope, and, most recently, Covid-19. Trenchant observations from an influential journalist. Copyright (c) Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.

Copyright (c) Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.