Legacy

Readers respond to Michael Mailer’s piece about his father and other “canceled” writers in the Boston Globe. A nuanced

Michael Mailer writes “Canceling my father, Norman Mailer: The US needs to stop eating its own” in the Boston Globe.

David Klion argues that the The White Negro “deserves to be studied and situated in its context rather than censored

Michael Mailer contextualizes the Cancel Mailer controversy and makes an argument for publishing companies to be a place for the

In “The effort to ‘delete’ American novelist Norman Mailer,” David Walsh argues that “[t]he censorship of Mailer’s work

On the BFG Podcast #037, renowned book critic Carolyn Kellogg joins Neal Pollack to talk about the Cancel Mailer controversy,

“If Norman Mailer can be cancelled, no one is safe,” argues Tim Black, perhaps overstating the issue based on the

“‘The White Negro’: Norman Mailer’s Essay 65 Years Later” by Peter Dreier considers Mailer’s 1957 essay in light

“[Mailer] stalked the twentieth century like a proud satyr: hideous, provocative, funny and insightful, and always true to himself,” writes