Norman Mailer remains a towering figure among 20th century writers and intellectuals and Jeff Zimbalist with his documentary “How to Come Alive with Norman Mailer” knew exactly what kind of doc Mailer ...

“How to Come Alive With Norman Mailer” hits on an ingenious structure that avoids hagiography even as it includes friends and family. By Alissa Wilkinson Given the hagiographic bias of most celebrity ...

Director Jeff Zimbalist channels Mailer the writer, the celebrity, the failure, the boozing-and-drugging underworld-of-the-'50s searcher, the culture warrior, the literary comingler of fiction and ...

Over at ’Roger’s Rules,’ his new blog at Pajamas Media, Roger Kimball follows the New Criterion principle of disregarding the Latin saying of ’de mortuis nil nisi bonum’ with a withering critique of ...