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

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

Remembering Norman Mailer and His Thorny Legacy “How to Come Alive With Norman Mailer” hits on an ingenious structure that avoids hagiography even as it includes friends and family.

It’s difficult to choose my favorite Norman Mailer fight. There was the time he head-butted Gore Vidal in the green room of The Dick Cavett Show and then—swaggering on stage truculent with ...

Norman Mailer is rightly remembered as a belligerent bigot, a man who eclipsed his own books and became his own most enduring character.

Norman Mailer’s World War II experiences would become the basis for his first novel, “The Naked and the Dead,” which the Library of America has just re-issued along with a selection of ...

No writer personifies the maddening contradictions of American democracy better than the late Norman Mailer. He was brilliant and buffoonish; a true artist, yet obnoxious; sensitive to the ...

Though he would later become a self-conscious literary celebrity, Mailer became a bestselling author with a vivid account of the realities of war.

How Do You Solve a Problem Like Norman Mailer? A new documentary offers a model for reassessing the lives of monstrous men.