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Literature & Fiction
Advertisements for Myself, a diverse and freewheeling tour through Mailer's early career, covers the many subjects with which he'd grapple for the rest of his life: sex, race, politics, literature, and the systems of power... See More
History
Part conspiracy trial, part political theater, the trial of seven activists who disrupted the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago, was an iconic event of the 1960's. Here, from trial transcripts, are the testimony of Abbie... See More
With unprecedented scope and consummate skill, Norman Mailer unfolds a rich and riveting epic of an American spy. Harry Hubbard is the son and godson of CIA legends. His journey to learn the secrets of his society -- and his... See More
Literature & Fiction
Norman Mailer's Pulitzer Prize-winning and unforgettable classic about convicted killer Gary Gilmore now in a brand-new edition. Arguably the greatest book from America's most heroically ambitious writer, The Executioner's... See More
Literature & Fiction
Hailed as one of the finest novels to come out of the Second World War, The Naked and the Dead received unprecedented critical acclaim upon its publication and has since enjoyed a long and well-deserved tenure in the... See More
Literary Fiction
"Spectacular... [Norman Mailer] makes every word count, like a master knife thrower zinging stilettos in a circle around your head." -- People Norman Mailer peers into the recesses and buried virtues of the modern American... See More
Literary Fiction
Norman Mailer's dazzlingly rich, deeply evocative novel of ancient Egypt breathes life into the figures of a lost era: the eighteenth-dynasty Pharaoh Rameses and his wife, Queen Nefertiti; Menenhetet, their creature, lover... See More
Literary Fiction
Amid the cactus wilds some two hundred miles from Hollywood lies a privileged oasis called Desert D'Or. It is a place for starlets, directors, studio execs, and the well-groomed lowlifes who cater to them. And, as imagined... See More
United States
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE GLOBE AND MAIL Norman Mailer was one of the towering figures of twentieth-century American letters and an acknowledged master of the essay. Mind of an Outlaw, the first... See More
Literature & Fiction
n The Good Books, over 50 writers -- including Yiyun Li, Anne Fadiman, Karen Russell, Gary Shteyngart, David Shields, and many more -- choose the works in translation they'd bring to a great global book swap. Also featured... See More
History
For many, the moon landing was the defining event of the twentieth century. So it seems only fitting that Norman Mailer -- the literary provocateur who altered the landscape of American nonfiction -- wrote the most... See More
Reference
"Writing is spooky," according to Norman Mailer. "There is no routine of an office to keep you going, only the blank page each morning, and you never know where your words are coming from, those divine words." In The Spooky... See More
Contemporary Fiction
"It is impossible to walk away from this novel without being sharply reminded of the fact that Norman Mailer is a writer of extraordinary ability." -- Chicago Tribune Featuring a new foreword by Mailer scholar Maggie... See More
History
In this landmark work of journalism, Norman Mailer reports on the presidential conventions of 1968, the turbulent year from which today's bitterly divided country arose. The Vietnam War was raging; Martin Luther King, Jr... See More
Literary Fiction
Norman Mailer fused fact and fiction to create indelible portraits of such figures as Marilyn Monroe, Gary Gilmore, and Lee Harvey Oswald. In The Gospel According to the Son, Mailer reimagines, as no other modern author has... See More
Literary Fiction
The final work of fiction from Norman Mailer, a defining voice of the postwar era, is also one of his most ambitious, taking as its subject the evil of Adolf Hitler. The narrator, a mysterious SS man in possession of... See More
History
Published on the centenary of Norman Mailer's birth, a timely and urgent call to preserve our democracy From his bestselling first novel, The Naked and the Dead, to his last work, American democracy was a lifelong project... See More
Biographies & Memoirs
Literature & Fiction
Published at the height of the McCarthy era, Norman Mailer's audacious novel of socialismis at once an elegy and an indictment, a sinuous moral thriller and an intellectual slugfest. Wounded during World War II, Mike Lovett... See More
Literature & Fiction
In this wild battering ram of a novel, which was originally published to vast controversy in 1965, Norman Mailer creates a character who might be a fictional precursor of the philosopher-killer he would later profile in The... See More
History
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. Here is Lee Harvey Oswald -- his family background... See More
Politics & Social Sciences
Beginning with his debut masterpiece, The Naked and the Dead, Norman Mailer has repeatedly told the truth about war. Why Are We at War? returns Mailer to the gravity of the battlefield and the grand hubris of the politicians... See More
Essays & Correspondence
A genuine literary event -- an illuminating collection of correspondence from one of the most acclaimed American writers of all time Over the course of a nearly sixty-year career, Norman Mailer wrote more than 30 novels... See More
Literature & Fiction
"I see God," wrote Norman Mailer, "as a Creator, as the greatest artist. I see human beings as His most developed artworks." In these moving, amusing, and probing dialogues conducted in the years before his death, Mailer... See More
History
The Armies of the Night chronicles the famed October 1967 March on the Pentagon, in which all of the old and new Left -- hippies, yuppies, Weathermen, Quakers, Christians, feminists, and intellectuals -- came together to... See More
Biographies & Memoirs
An extraordinary biography of the legendary screen star Marilyn Monroe (originally published in 1973) by Norman Mailer, one of America's most important writers of the second half of the Twentieth Century. Mailer, the winner... See More
Paret lay on the ground, quivering gently, a small froth on his mouth. The house doctor jumped into the ring. He knelt. He pried Paret's eyelid open. He looked at the eyeball staring out. He let the lid snap shut. He reached... See More
Politics & Social Sciences
There was entertainment at the Republican Gala on Sunday night. The climax was a full marching band of bagpipers. They must have been hired for the week since one kept hearing them on the following days, and at all odd... See More
Biographies & Memoirs
"A small treasure of a book... It deserves a wide audience of Mailer and Vidal fans" -- Dick Cavett He prepared therefore for the meditative journey that proves most excruciating in Limbo, a rounding through the past, a... See More
Biographies & Memoirs
For fifteen years, government worker Robert Hanssen passed along to the Soviets over 6,000 pages of top secret and classified information, including information on the U.S. investigation of smuggling nuclear weapons to third... See More