Norman Mailer, left, and Gore Vidal at a party in 1993. Mailer, who died in 2007, might have enjoyed the latest controversy. (Ron Frehm / Associated Press) Let’s say, for the sake of argument, that ...

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 ...

Get a compelling long read and must-have lifestyle tips in your inbox every Sunday morning — great with coffee! The passing of Norman Mailer has elicited tributes, memories, and even a video of Rip ...

Norman Mailer died on Saturday in New York. He was 84 years old. Despite Mailer's Pulitzer Prizes and National Book Award, his written work, whether fiction or non-fiction, never received universal ...

“Norman would have loved it,” said Hollywood director and screenwriter James Toback of the Norman Mailer Center’s sixth annual Benefit Gala at the New York Public Library on Monday. Toback brought the ...

Norman Mailer lived large. So it’s no surprise his correspondents included just about everyone who was anyone in 20th century America, and why “Selected Letters of Norman Mailer” is such a ...

Jacki Lyden remembers Pulitzer-prize winning novelist Norman Mailer, who died Saturday at the age of 84. We hear excerpts from NPR interviews with Mailer. And we speak with Jimmy Breslin, the ...

In this Dec. 29, 1960 photo, author Norman Mailer and his wife, Adele, sit together in court as Norman answers an assault charge that he stabbed Adele after a party at their apartment. AP Adele ...

One of those self-important so-called pundits once asked Norman Mailer if fascism was coming to America. The pompous one had once worked for Time, so Norman answered him with a pun. “It’s going to be ...

From Washington to Hollywood, American culture is now defined by score settling. But what do centuries of feuding have to teach us about getting even? By Mark Harris, M.H. Miller and Minju Pak In a ...

DALLAS TOWNSHIP — The Norman Mailer Society has five officers and 19 board members, and if you asked them all to roll up their sleeves, how many, do you suppose, would reveal a tattoo that celebrates ...

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 ...