Current Issue
Volume One (Fall 2007) of The Mailer Review inaugurates the journal as the central scholarly forum for the study of Norman Mailer’s life, work, and cultural legacy. Bringing together archival discoveries, critical essays, keynote reflections, review essays, and curated visual materials, the volume establishes the Review’s commitment to methodological range and intellectual seriousness. Highlights include Robert F. Lucid’s biographical essay on Mailer’s formative experience at Boston State Hospital, an unpublished 1942 dramatic excerpt related to The Naked and the Dead, major critical engagements with The Executioner’s Song and The Castle in the Forest, and essays drawing on the Harry Ransom Center’s Mailer archive. The volume concludes with a substantial supplemental bibliography, positioning Volume One not only as a landmark issue but as an indispensable foundation for future Mailer scholarship.
