Norman Mailer’s generation learned to “write like men.” But their female contemporaries from Mary McCarthy to Diana Trilling pioneered a more enduring style.

The decline in his fiction over his lifetime was understandable. The mystery is why his worst journalism ever received such lavish praise.

Junior staffers at Penguin Random House scoff at the idea that one of their own was powerful enough to derail a new collection of the author’s work.

How sexism and machismo shaped a prestigious writing program

The author blazed a new path for the novel by combining an unbridled, inimitable vernacular with the great themes of postwar American life.

A much-discussed essay in "The American Conservative" is an attack on trans people masquerading as an exercise in good faith.

Jack Henry Abbott was a talented writer and a convicted murderer. What made Mailer believe he wouldn't kill again?

Writing was difficult for the author; drawing was joyful

The perpetual wisdom of 'The Deer Park'