Norman Mailer

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On Afghanistan, Obama needs the input of freethinking outsiders, not generals. What if LBJ had listened to Mailer?
By William Astore Oct 13, 2009

  • Sex tapes and outings and schlubs, oh my!

    Celebrate the year in sexual intrigue, as D-list celebs spread it for the cameras, Hollywood avoids smushmortions, and Hitler's mommy gets laid.
    By Rebecca Traister December 27, 2007

  • Queen Hillary's disruptive court

    The press corps finally wakes up to her waffling and evasions. Plus: Norman Mailer's largely forgotten legacy and our disappointing lesbian icons!
    By Camille Paglia November 14, 2007

  • Norman Mailer 1923 - 2007

    Remembrances of Norman Mailer by Marlon Brando, Liz Smith, Irving Howe, Diana Trilling, Edward Abbey, Germaine Greer and other notables.
    Compiled by Dana Cook November 11, 2007

  • Remembering Norman Mailer through his books

    This entry from "The Salon.com Reader's Guide to Contemporary Authors" takes us on a tour of his best, his worst and his bravest.
    By A.O. Scott November 10, 2007

  • Too much Gore

    Vidal's second memoir merely retells the stories we already know from his enormous -- and potentially irrelevant -- body of work.
    By Allen Barra January 3, 2007

  • The sound bite and the fury

    Literary bad boy James Frey says Dave Eggers can eat his dust. His self-promotion is tiresome, but his addiction memoir, "A Million Little Pieces," shows he has the right stuff.
    By Louis Bayard April 19, 2003

  • "The Spooky Art" by Norman Mailer

    In a new volume of advice to young writers, the great man of American letters weighs his own legacy -- and finds it wanting.
    By Aaron Hicklin April 14, 2003

  • Farewell to Will

    Norman Mailer flattens George Will after the bow-tied GOP courtier notes a Hemingway-like eloquence in our president's mangled prose.
    By Gary Kamiya March 27, 2002

  • Here we go again

    A Clinton fan tears off her shirt right after the president signs it; Britney Spears spotted in sync with Justin Timberlake; and Martha Stewart gets carried away with a trespasser. Plus: Fabio's a Gore man, Meg Ryan's a Quaid woman.
    By Amy Reiter August 22, 2000

  • My perversion

    The love that dare not cluck its name; a few words about dirty words in Mexico; and the prize that is Consuela.
    By Carlos Amantea May 6, 2000

  • The art of crime

    Ex-con and man of letters Edward Bunker discusses his new memoir, "Education of a Felon," and life as an upstanding citizen.
    By Stephen Lemons April 24, 2000

  • The return of the White Negro

    Filmmaker James Toback talks about race, sex, Warren Beatty and his explosive new movie, "Black and White."
    By Michael Sragow March 30, 2000

  • "Main Event"

    A retrospective of Howard Bingham's photography recalls the Ali-Foreman "Rumble in the Jungle."
    By Stephen Lemons February 28, 2000

  • Tom Wolfe calls Irving, Mailer and Updike "the Three Stooges"

    "Bonfire of the Vanities" author fans literary feud.
    By Craig Offman January 21, 2000

  • A Dunne deal

    In his new memoir, Dominick Dunne describes how he found fame the old-fashioned way: He yearned for it.
    By Sean Elder October 13, 1999

  • The docu-novel

    The author of "Bellefleur" selects five great "nonfiction novels."
    By Joyce Carol Oates September 20, 1999

  • Faster, pussycat ... save me the aisle seat?

    Meyer and Ebert agree on the big, bouncy issues. Beatty clues in, moves on, drops out. Also: Can it be true? Howard laments dearth of lesbians!
    By Amy Reiter September 17, 1999

  • Mailer vs. Greer: The bout that wasn't

    Mailer vs. Greer: The bout that wasn't
    By Laura Miller July 13, 1999

  • Kate Millett, the ambivalent feminist

    The author of the 1970 bestseller "Sexual Politics" may have been the women's movement's most unlikely heroine, or maybe not.
    By Leslie Crawford June 5, 1999

  • Punch drunk

    Vivian Gornick reviews 'The Time of Our Time' a collection of essays by Norman Mailer
    By Vivian Gornick May 27, 1998

  • The year in books

    Dwight Garner reviews the events in book publishing in 1997
    By Dwight Garner December 24, 1997

  • The man who loved books in Turkey

    For Lisa Michaels, an encounter with a book-starved shopkeeper in Turkey provides a new perspective on literary packing.
    By Lisa Michaels December 3, 1997

  • twilight of the old goats

    Salon magazine: Mailer, Roth and Bellow refuse to go quietly. By D.T. Max
    By D.T. Max May 16, 1997
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