In one week, The Week and Collider land Mailer on two very different best-of lists — The Deer Park and The Naked and the Dead.

Cutting Up Mailer

Joel J Miller’s defense of readers who abuse their books opens with the worst offender of all.

An American Book

Esquire names The Naked and the Dead one of the most American books of all time.

11 Rue Brea

Susan Mailer visits the Paris address where her parents lived in 1947–48.