Norman Mailer, the irascible giant of American letters, died this month at the age of 84. Mailer burst upon the literary scene in 1948 with his widely acclaimed World War II novel The Naked and the ...
No writer personifies the maddening contradictions of American democracy better than the late Norman Mailer. He was brilliant and buffoonish; a true artist, yet obnoxious; sensitive to the suffering ...
A Hitch in Time: Writings from the London Review of Books, by Christopher Hitchens. Atlantic Books. 340 pages. £12.99. His head was hairless, except for a wispy pair of eyebrows, and there was a ...