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 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 ...

IT WAS THE novel that made Norman Mailer famous, aged just 25. Published in 1948, “The Naked and the Dead” was based on his experiences as a US Army rifleman in the Philippines, and astonished readers ...

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 and ...

This month marks the 100th birthday of the enfant terrible of American letters, Norman Mailer, who died of acute renal failure in 2007. His many books, including two that won Pulitzer Prizes — “The ...

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 ...

So long as the entire exercise of criticism is not exhausted by moralizing at the past, however, it can make sense to be at least a little horrified by what someone once did, said, or thought. Before ...