Norman Mailer’s generation learned to “write like men.” But their female contemporaries from Mary McCarthy to Diana Trilling pioneered a more enduring style.

The decline in his fiction over his lifetime was understandable. The mystery is why his worst journalism ever received such lavish praise.

Junior staffers at Penguin Random House scoff at the idea that one of their own was powerful enough to derail a new collection of the author’s work.

How sexism and machismo shaped a prestigious writing program

A much-discussed essay in "The American Conservative" is an attack on trans people masquerading as an exercise in good faith.