Norman Mailer remains a towering figure among 20th century writers and intellectuals and Jeff Zimbalist with his documentary “How to Come Alive with Norman Mailer” knew exactly what kind of doc Mailer ...

Norman Mailer is the kind of writer people now tend to look at and appraise by saying, “He could never get away with that today.” And maybe that’s true. In Mailer’s case, however, the that they’re ...

“Ad Astra” director James Gray is giving his take on controversial author Norman Mailer for a new series. Gray, whose own biographical “Armageddon Time” is a hopeful entry for this year’s Cannes, is ...

Alan Cheuse reviews the new biography Norman Mailer: A Double Life by J. Michael Lennon. The book is 900 pages long and comes from an admiring biographer with incredible access to Mailer, who died six ...

In a newly reissued 1983 book, the radical feminist Andrea Dworkin argued that conservative women understood the reality of male domination. By Jennifer Szalai Political histories, a courtroom drama ...

The next time you’re thinking of impressing your friends with that cool idea you had–”NYC should be its own state!”– take a second to remember that you’re not being terribly original. First, in 1861 ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. Norman Mailer would have turned 86 today, except that he died in ...

EXCLUSIVE: Norman Mailer, the celebrated and controversial author behind books such as The Executioner’s Song, made headlines earlier this year as part of a publishing brouhaha related to a new ...

The would-be buyer of Norman Mailer’s former Brooklyn Heights apartment wants to be released from his contract to buy the top-floor pad at 142 Columbia Heights for $2.08 million. According to the ...