Legacy

For A&E, Adam Janos revisits the Jack Henry Abbott affair — the hardest case against Mailer’s romance with the outlaw.

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.

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

Felice Basbøll, at The Critic, reads Mailer and Germaine Greer as a model of intellectual combat we’ve since mislaid.

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

Taki recalls Mailer in a new American Conservative column.

Scott Adlerberg makes the case for Tough Guys Don’t Dance at CrimeReads.

An Economic Times op-ed revives the most durable bit of Naked and the Dead lore.

On Mailer and the Australian Literary Mausoleum.

The Adrenaline Rush That Was Never Yours to Take