Posts under ‘Politics’

James Brookfield begins by reconsidering the literary merits of Barbary Shore, Norman Mailer’s second novel, is his article “Considering Norman Mailer and His Work: a Letter.” Brookfield positions his article as a response and commentary on Andras Gyorgy’s recent “The Postwar Novelist in Regression: Norman Mailer (1927-2007)” — mostly a commentary on the “socialist” Mailer. [...]

I a recent article in the Media Monitors Network, Norman Solomon asks “Why Are We Still at War?” He analyzes the pointlessness of fighting a “war on terror,” supporting his assertion with quotations by Joan Didion and Norman Mailer. He writes:
It may be profoundly true that we are not red states and blue states, that [...]

Fred Kaplan, in his article “Forget FDR and Lincoln; Obama Is Most Like JFK” for Slate, argues that “the Kennedy-Obama parallels are, in fact, deeper than they might seem.” Within, he cites — you guessed it — Mailer’s “Superman Comes to the Supermarket”:
In the vapid Eisenhower years, he went on, the “life of politics and [...]

Dwayne Raymond today recounts the time Esquire offered Norman Mailer the opportunity to travel briefly with Barack Obama. His article “When Mailer Almost Profiled Obama” appears in The Huffington Post and gives a bit of insight into how Mailer felt about our next president. Raymond writes:
I said to Norman that I thought Obama might have [...]

Matt Bia, a political commentator for the New York Times Magazine, likens Barack Obama with Mailer’s hopes for a President Kennedy in his “Superman Comes to the Supermarket.” Bai begins “The Edge of Mystery” by referencing Mailer, the great political commentator of the twentieth century:
Weeks before the election of 1960, Norman Mailer, already an accomplished [...]