News
The latest updates and news from the Society
2026
- Erik Nakjavani Erik G.R. Nakjavani, Professor Emeritus at the University of Pittsburgh, a founding member of the Hemingway Society, and a longtime friend of the Mailer Society, died on September 27, 2026.
- The Sipiora Years, Online All fifteen volumes of The Mailer Review edited by Phillip Sipiora, 2007–2021, are now online for the first time.
- Mailer’s Wake, Among the Masons Matthew Barney and Jonathan Bepler’s River of Fundament, their opera based on Ancient Evenings, returns to New York for an eight-hour screening in the Grand Lodge on November 14.
- Mailer and the Resident Punk Legs McNeil’s new memoir remembers a 1980 party at Mailer’s Brooklyn Heights home — and the night Woody Allen wouldn’t come out of the bathroom.
- Boz and Aquarius Board member Olivia Rutigliano puts Mailer next to Dickens at CrimeReads — and lands on the thing the two men actually shared.
- “Culture Is Worth a Little Risk” For A&E, Adam Janos revisits the Jack Henry Abbott affair — the hardest case against Mailer’s romance with the outlaw.
- From the Platoon to the Back Lot In one week Mailer lands on three very different best-of lists — for The Deer Park, The Naked and the Dead, and The Executioner’s Song.
- Cutting Up Mailer Joel J Miller’s defense of readers who abuse their books opens with the worst offender of all.
- Sex Wars, and the Lost Art of the Fair Fight Felice Basbøll, at The Critic, reads Mailer and Germaine Greer as a model of intellectual combat we’ve since mislaid.
- An American Book Esquire names The Naked and the Dead one of the most American books of all time.
- Taki Remembers His Friend Taki recalls Mailer in a new American Conservative column.
- Tough Guys, Reconsidered Scott Adlerberg makes the case for Tough Guys Don’t Dance at CrimeReads.
- The Long Life of “Fug” An Economic Times op-ed revives the most durable bit of Naked and the Dead lore.
- Marilyn in Italy Mailer’s Marilyn Returns to Italian Bookstores.
- 11 Rue Brea Susan Mailer visits the Paris address where her parents lived in 1947–48.
- The Art of Looking Back Maggie McKinley Turns Her Eye to Joan Didion.
- Announcing Conference 2026! Join us in Florida for the 23rd Annual Conference of the Norman Mailer Society.
- A Letter from the President A message from President Matthew Hinton on the Society’s work, the 2025 conference, and the year ahead.
- Piety vs. Artistry On Mailer and the Australian Literary Mausoleum.
- Revisiting “The White Negro” Again The Adrenaline Rush That Was Never Yours to Take
- Norman Mailer and the Death of the War-Hero Writer It’s easier to be an influencer these days.
- Welcome to Violet! Announcing the birth of Violet Barbara Mailer.
- Isaac Marries Fanny Isaac Barnett (“Barney”) Mailer marries Fanny Schneider in Manhattan.
- The Fifth Estate Mailer’s fiftieth birthday and the announcement of “The Fifth Estate.”
- Trump, Greenland, and Mailer A Rolling Stone commentary channels Norman Mailer to make sense of Trump’s dream of buying a continent
- Norman Mailer at 103 January 31, 1923: A Birthday for a Writer Who Refused to Be Finished
- “The Deer Park” Goes Onstage January 21, 1967: Mailer Tests His Novel in Public.
- Norman Mailer Speaks His Mind by Reford MacDougall, McGill Daily, January 19, 1962.
- Barbara Mailer Wasserman Writer, Sister of Norman Mailer dies at 98.
- New Editorial Assistant: Spring 2026 Graduate student Josie Hadaway joins the Review team.