Last year, in the wake of growing partisan division in America and the Jan. 6 riots, friends and strangers kept asking John Buffalo Mailer what his father, author Norman Mailer, who died in 2007, ...

The 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 ...

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 ...

Authors like Jack London and Norman Mailer have delved into the psyche of boxers, exploring the depths of human nature. These narratives often reflect the societal challenges of their times ...

Repressive regimes can’t silence a nation’s spirit, kept alive by its intellectual life.

It is fashionable to call Norman Mailer the bad boy of American literature and leave it at that. The underground stories about him circulate, and the incidents he provokes have become legend.