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

“If Norman Mailer can be cancelled, no one is safe,” argues Tim Black, perhaps overstating the issue based on the facts, but his point is strong.

“‘The White Negro’: Norman Mailer’s Essay 65 Years Later” by Peter Dreier considers Mailer’s 1957 essay in light of current events and concludes “For all…

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

More on the cancel Mailer controversy.

You can’t cancel Norman Mailer.

“Millennials hate him and he must go, but he’s not going anywhere,” writes Neal Pollack.

Norman Mailer in Context has been published by Cambridge University Press, edited by Mailer Society president Maggie McKinley.

Literary Hub has published an excerpt from Joan Didion’s 1979 review of The Executioner’s Song .

Tomiwa Owolade revisits The Prisoner of Sex .