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 ...

Author Norman Mailer and his wife, Adele, sit together in New York City felony court Dec. 29, 1960. Mailer was appearing to answer a felonious assault charge that he stabbed his wife after a Nov ...

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 ...

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.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...