The title itself captures the balancing act Zimbalist is attempting: How to Come Alive With Norman Mailer (A Cautionary Tale) ...

Norman Mailer is the kind of writer people now tend to look at and appraise by saying, "He could never get away with that ...

Given the hagiographic bias of most celebrity documentaries, “How to Come Alive With Norman Mailer” (in theaters) sails into choppy waters. The director Jeff Zimbalist had to figure out a way ...

Norman Mailer wasn’t always playing the violent maniac. But his pugnacious nature shone in all he did, even his choice of leisure. Boxing was one of his great sustaining joys.

Norman Mailer, the lapsed titan of American letters and culturally pervasive provocateur who won the Pulitzer Prize for both Fiction and Nonfiction and remained a reliable bestseller throughout ...

About a decade after he had become famous for his bestselling first novel “The Naked and the Dead,” Norman Mailer reflected, with some mournfulness, on his vertiginous ascent: “My farewell ...

About a year ago, Norman Mailer's name blipped up on the nation's cultural radar screen. The (misleading) headline was that a "junior staffer" at Random House had scuttled the publication of a new ...

The Importance of Norman Mailer Sexist, violent, and a brazen self-promoter, the midcentury giant of the American novel is no longer in style, but he still has a lot to teach us.

When Norman Mailer was inducted into the Army, in March, 1944, he was a freshly married twenty-one-year-old Harvard graduate, a slight young man of five feet eight inches and a hundred and thirty ...

T he contemporary brief against Norman Mailer is long and sordid. He was a misogynist, a violent man who extolled violence. In his brawling and chest-thumping, he tried to out-Hemingway Hemingway ...