norman mailer

Tough Guy: The Life of Norman Mailer

Allen Barra / Truthdig Jan 27, 2023 Whoever said that a biographer eventually comes around to admiring his subject never met Richard Bradford. Dig deeper ( 8 Min. Read )

Pauline Kael Gets the Last Word in ‘What She Said’

Allen Barra / Truthdig Nov 11, 2018 Documentary director Rob Garver explores the prose, controversies and lasting legacy of perhaps the most enduring of America’s film critics, whose work didn't always garner favorable reviews from her peers. Dig deeper ( 9 Min. Read )

RIP, Printed Village Voice

Allen Barra / Truthdig Nov 28, 2017 A former staff writer at the alternative newsweekly reminisces about the paper’s golden age in the 1980s. Dig deeper ( 12 Min. Read )

Muhammad Ali, by the Book

Allen Barra / Truthdig Jun 11, 2016 He may be the only athlete who merits an entire college course. Here are the books that would make up the curriculum. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

‘The United States of Amnesia’: Gore Vidal in Winter

Kasia Anderson / Truthdig Jun 14, 2014 We can’t say Gore Vidal didn’t warn us. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

Why I Miss Norman Mailer

Mr. Fish / Truthdig Feb 18, 2011 I thought that I’d done everything I was supposed to do. This was back in the springtime of 2007, about seven months before Norman Mailer died. Dig deeper ( 9 Min. Read )

A Countercultural Conversation With Noam Chomsky

Mr. Fish / Truthdig Aug 6, 2010 The following is an interview with professor Noam Chomsky examining the question of why the counterculture, which had been so endemic to the politics of dissent in the 1950s, ’60s and ’70s, no longer seems to exist in any viable way.The following is an interview with Noam Chomsky about why the counterculture no longer seems to exist in any viable way. Dig deeper ( 21 Min. Read )

Norman Mailer Dead at 84

Staff / Truthdig Nov 11, 2007 News of the loss of one of America's most unique voices, Norman Mailer, rippled through the literary community Saturday after Mailer's biographer announced that the author of "The Armies of the Night" and "The Naked and the Dead" had expired at New York's Mount Sinai Hospital. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )