Christopher Buckley

In his tenth novel They Eat Puppies, Don’t They?, Christopher Buckley plays off of stereotypes of China to create a satirical portrait of U.S-China relations. Buckley explores the worst case scenario with inspiration from the satire movie Dr. Strangelove: It was hard, really, to put any kind of definite face on China. The old Soviet Union, with its squat, warty leaders banging their shoes on the U.N. podium and threatening thermonuclear...  

Writing political satire can be difficult. Too many jokes about swift boats or birth certificates can immediately date a novel. On the other hand, too broad a satire feels toothless—there’s no shortage of complaints about politics in general. They Eat Puppies, Don’t They?, the latest from Thank You For Smoking and Boomsday author Christopher Buckley, manages to sidestep this issue entirely...  

Twelve, 335pp., $25.99 Writing comic novels is a difficult business, a specialty act with few solid practitioners. It involves not only plotting and populating a novel, but the considerable skill and risk of making the story funny. Christopher Buckley, who...  

Author Christopher Buckley, best known for his book-turned-movie, "Thank You For Smoking," speaks to the "CBS This Morning" co-hosts about his new novel, which focuses on China, "They Eat Puppies, Don't They?"  

Defense lobbyist Walter "Bird" McIntyre is not having a good day. His big push for aerospace contractor Groepping-Sprunt to secure a multi-billion-dollar contract for drones the size of jumbo jets has fallen through. He retires to his modest home, which he ...  

"They Eat Puppies, Don't They?" (Twelve), by Christopher Buckley: With rising concern about China's military buildup and its economic rivalry with the U.S., perhaps the best course of action is to milk the situation for some laughs. And there are laughs aplenty in Christopher Buckley's sendup on relations between the ...  

Not really, but one might think so given the title of Buckley's soon-to-be-released book: They Eat Puppies, Don't They? In any case, this will be ordered soon--a Buckley satire will be the perfect way to decompress from this semester....  

Christopher Buckley writing a Washington satire about a defense lobbyist fomenting trouble with China? So this is what baseball players mean by a pitch being in their wheelhouse. And as with his earlier swing at lobbyists, the hilarious 1994 ...  

Christopher Buckley’s satirical novels do not normally prompt cognitive dissonance. But there’s something jolting at work in his latest, “They Eat Puppies, Don’t They?” This book means to be funny, but it’s about China, currently one ...  

Longtime National Review managing editor and confidante to the late William F. Buckley Jr., Priscilla Buckley, died at age 90 last weekend. NR friends and family pay tribute (and see more from Rick Brookhiser, Jack Fowler, and Mona Charen.) Keep reading this post . . .  

“As a quieter art, poetry sometimes escapes our attention. This is its month in the sun.” National Poetry Month in Santa Barbara features children, teenagers, college students and adults, representing an array of diversity. Events will be ...  

William F. Buckley, Jr. I don’t read the National Review, which describes itself as "America's most widely read and influential magazine and web site for conservative news, commentary, and opinion." Though not a reader, I often run across citations from it and quotes from its writers in publications I do read, like the New York Times, which unfortunately serve to lend it gravitas, and I am well aware it was founded by William F. Buckley, Jr...  

But conservative Republicans — those represented politically by Goldwater, and intellectually by William F. Buckley and National Review — did oppose the civil rights movement. Buckley wrote frankly about his endorsement of white supremacy ...  

Back in college I had an opportunity to hear William F. Buckley Jr. speak and meet him afterward. This was a big deal for me at the time. Buckley wasn’t just the founder of National Review and political gadfly extraordinaire, he was also a ...  

Ms. Buckley, who never married, leaves two brothers, James L. Buckley, a retired federal judge who represented New York in the US Senate from 1971 to 1977, and F. Reid Buckley, and a sister, Carol Buckley. William F. Buckley Jr. died in 2008.