This year, we launch a new feature for a new web site.

January 7, 1967: One of Mailer’s earliest “I’ll do it myself” moves—self-mythmaking through film.

Gabriel S. Tennen draws a line connecting Mamdani’s 2025 mayoral push with Mailer and Breslin’s 1969 campaign.

The Norman Mailer Society is pleased to announce that David Denby is the recipient of the 2025 Lucid Award.

John Buffalo Mailer reflects on the life, work, and legacy of his father.

Anthony Giardina revisits Mailer’s 1959 Advertisements for Myself.

Society member Robert Dean Lurie examines Mailer’s unconventional approach to biographical writing.

In his  New Statesman  article, “We Must All Be Left Conservatives Now,” Lee Siegel considers Norman Mailer’s self-description as a “Left…

In his “The Real Woke Right,” Geoff Shullenberger examines the rise of right-wing movements that adopt progressive language to advance conservative agendas.

In his  Commonweal  article, “Where Secularism Fails,” Paul Baumann touches on Norman Mailer’s sharp critiques of modern secularism.