Norman Mailer Audio & Video

The New York Public Library presents The 20th Century on Trial with Gunter Grass.

The New York Public Library presents The 20th Century on Trial with Norman Mailer.

An appreciation of Norman Mailer. Mailer died of acute renal failure on the morning of November 10, 2007, a month after undergoing lung surgery at Mount Sinai Hospital in Manhattan, New York. He was 84 years old.

Mailer's first novel in a decade is a big, bold, wildly entertaining saga about a profoundly dysfunctional Austrian family, the nature of the evil that runs in its veins, and a little boy named Adolf Hitler who inherits its twisted legacy.

Mailer's first novel in a decade is a big, bold, wildly entertaining saga about a profoundly dysfunctional Austrian family, the nature of the evil that runs in its veins, and a little boy named Adolf Hitler who inherits its twisted legacy.

Following The New Testament closely, Norman Mailer recreates the life of Jesus and the Holy Land...

Mr. Mailer talked about his book The Spooky Art: Some Thoughts on Writing, published by Random House.

Mailers major works have engaged such themes as war, politics, culture, and sex. Now he gives us fresh ways to think about the largest subject of them all.

Why Are We at War? is an explosive argument about George W. Bush and his quest for empire...