The Fighter
/Norman Mailer was as fiery and mercurial a letter-writer as he was a novelist and journalist - and ten times as prolific. A big new volume collects the highlights of a lifetime in the post.
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Norman Mailer was as fiery and mercurial a letter-writer as he was a novelist and journalist - and ten times as prolific. A big new volume collects the highlights of a lifetime in the post.
Read MoreWe live in an age of outrage, yet one of our most egregious 'blood sports' escapes censure from the press. Since long before Hemingway, writers have been calling bullfighting exotic instead of barbaric -- what are they thinking?
Read MoreCinema lore has it that Jean-Luc Godard read only the first and last three pages of King Lear before making his film adaptation. Lianne Habinek suggests this may have helped him get at the play's essence.
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