Throughout “Fire and Fury,” eyes of storms are always swirling, curtains are coming down, genies pop out of bottles, and the fates of various devils and clown princes hang in the balance. Unfortunately, though, the author seems to live in, or at least write from, the same tired universe. Wolff might have used this trite language to note his subjects’ limited thinking and vocabulary.

“Where Coyotes Howl” is a charming tale of love and loss on the prairie Conservative media entrepreneur David Bossie invokes Frank Sinatra’s “New York, New York,” while Bannon thinks of his pronouncements as “Shakespearean,” without any clear sense of what that means.

Jared Kushner warns about putting carts before horses and sees Bannon as Rasputin. To Roger Ailes, Trump is “a rebel without a cause” and simultaneously someone who “would jump through hoops” to earn Rupert Murdoch’s approval. The figures in “Fire and Fury” often think in cliches and dated references. More than one Uber driver asked me what else I thought the book would reveal.īut now I’ve read “Fire and Fury,” and it’s clear that Wolff has managed a feat even more daunting than turning a nonfiction book into a genuine phenomenon: He has written a chronicle of the Trump administration that, vicious excerpts aside, is a real slog to get through. Readers dissected the available tidbits so passionately that Wolff’s publishers pushed up the date the tell-all would arrive in stores. Bannon, who had talked extensively and intemperately for the book, and became notably hysterical, even for him, on Twitter. President Donald Trump excoriated his former chief strategist, Stephen K. The excerpts from Michael Wolff’s “Fire and Fury” that began to run in early January read like a strychnine cocktail. Digital Replica Edition Home Page Close Menu

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