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 ...

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 ...

Despite reports of the author's latest book being canceled by Random House, the company states it was never under contract to begin with. Yes, Norman Mailer's book is still happening — but its ...

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 ...

“Ad Astra” director James Gray is giving his take on controversial author Norman Mailer for a new series. Gray, whose own biographical “Armageddon Time” is a hopeful entry for this year’s Cannes, is ...

In this Dec. 29, 1960 photo, author Norman Mailer and his wife, Adele, sit together in court as Norman answers an assault charge that he stabbed Adele after a party at their apartment. AP Adele ...

Norman Mailer, who passed away in 2007, remains a big deal kind of writer: Big enough for the Library of America to be releasing a two-volume edition of his selected books and essays, big enough for ...

It's a measure of how enormously, inexhaustibly prolific Norman Mailer was that, at 624 pages, a new collection of his work, Mind of an Outlaw, is subtitled Selected Essays — not complete essays. In ...

The next time you’re thinking of impressing your friends with that cool idea you had–”NYC should be its own state!”– take a second to remember that you’re not being terribly original. First, in 1861 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...