Norman Mailer Audio & Video

In The Gospel According to the Son, Mailer reimagines, as no other modern author has, the key character of Western history.

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.

In perhaps his most important literary feat, Norman Mailer fashions an unprecedented portrait of one of the great villains - and enigmas - in United States history.

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.

Questions are posed, writes Norman Mailer, "in the hope they will open into richer insights, which in turn will bring forth sharper questions.

Beginning with his debut masterpiece, The Naked and the Dead, Norman Mailer has repeatedly told the truth about war.

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.

In 1974 in Kinshasa, Za‚àö?òre, two African American boxers were paid five million dollars apiece to fight each other.

There was entertainment at the Republican Gala on Sunday night.

Originally published in 1959, Advertisements for Myself is an inventive collection of stories, essays, polemic, meditations, and interviews.