Catch-22 at 50: A Symposium

Tracy Daugherty, "The War for Catch-22," Vanity Fair, August, is an excerpt from his Just One Catch: A Biography of Joseph Heller.

James Camp, "Joseph Heller Biography Catches the Man," New York Observer, 2 August, reviews Daugherty's Just One Catch.

Janet Maslin, "The Catching of Two Joseph Hellers," NYT, 27 July, and Walter Kirn, "War Is Heller," Slate, 2 August, review Daugherty's Just One Catch and Erica Heller's Yossarian Slept Here: When Joseph Heller Was Dad and Life Was a Catch-22.

Elizabeth D. Samet, "Happy Birthday, ‘Catch-22': Reading the Novel in a Time of War," TNR, 6 July; Daniel Swift, "Still caught out by Catch-22," New Statesman, 7 July; and Ron Rosenbaum, "Seeing Catch-22 Twice," Slate, 2 August, look again at Catch-22.

John Self, "Famous for the Wrong Book," Guardian, 19 July, identifies over a half-dozen writers who are remembered for their lesser work. Heller's Something Happened is better, he argues.