Vinson Cunningham’s novel of faith and politics. In Great Expectations, Cunningham examines the hope and aspirations of the Obama generation. In the wake of Bill Clinton’s presidential victory in 1992 ...

I first read Vinson Cunningham’s writing in the early fall of 2014, when I was serving as a judge for a writing contest sponsored by McSweeney’s Internet Tendency. We were looking for new columnists ...

We may receive an affiliate commission from anything you buy from this article. In "Great Expectations" (Hogarth), the debut novel of New Yorker essayist and theater critic Vinson Cunningham, a young ...

In a political roman à clef, anonymity can leave a lot to be desired. When “Primary Colors” appeared in 1996, the rabid quest to identify its author (Joe Klein) outshone the novel’s sharp satire of ...

Like so many others, I first watched him speak on the night of the 2004 Democratic convention, the year John Kerry became the nominee. He was still a state senator then, his face unlined, his head ...

It’s ambitious to name your debut novel “Great Expectations.” Regardless of the immediate reference to Dickens’ classic coming-of-age novel, you’re establishing high stakes for yourself. That said, go ...

A young protagonist searches for authenticity behind the veneer of politics in a novel by The New Yorker’s theater critic At some point in Vinson Cunningham’s autobiographical novel “Great ...

Sign up to receive our twice-weekly News & Politics newsletter. Like most Americans, Vinson Cunningham first became aware of Barack Obama in 2004, when he gave a ...