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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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