Once upon a time in a land not so far away, America produced men and women with the ability to evade category. No one quite knew how to classify Walt Whitman’s poetry when America’s bard made his ...
Norman Mailer, the pugnacious two-time Pulitzer Prize winner who jabbed and bobbed his way, sometimes literally, through an extraordinary career as one of the most original and audacious voices in ...
DALLAS TOWNSHIP — The Norman Mailer Society has five officers and 19 board members, and if you asked them all to roll up their sleeves, how many, do you suppose, would reveal a tattoo that celebrates ...
Norman Mailer was proud of his essay “The White Negro: Superficial Reflections on the Hipster.” Published in Dissent in 1957, it was reprinted in Advertisements for Myself (1959), Mailer’s anthology ...
In the spring of 1948 he drove to Italy in a small Peugeot, accom­panied by his wife, younger sister, and mother — Beatrice, Barbara, and Fanny. They left Paris on June 1, drove east to Switzerland ...
Norman Mailer, left, and Gore Vidal at a party in 1993. Mailer, who died in 2007, might have enjoyed the latest controversy. (Ron Frehm / Associated Press) Let’s say, for the sake of argument, that ...
Norman Mailer, who for decades reigned as the country's literary conscience and provocateur with such books as "The Naked and the Dead" and "The Executioner's Song," died Saturday. By The Associated ...
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 ...
In a newly reissued 1983 book, the radical feminist Andrea Dworkin argued that conservative women understood the reality of male domination. By Jennifer Szalai Political histories, a courtroom drama ...