Vol. 13 No. 1 (2019)
Volume 13 of The Mailer Review (Fall 2019) reflects a moment of renewed synthesis in Mailer studies, bringing together archival discovery, critical reassessment, and international scholarly exchange.
A defining feature of Volume 13 is its attention to Mailer’s global reception and political imagination. Several essays examine Mailer’s work in transnational contexts, addressing his engagement with Cold War geopolitics, American empire, and international intellectual traditions. Contributions by scholars such as Raymond M. Vince, Victor Peppard, and Robert J. Begiebing revisit key texts including Harlot’s Ghost, The Armies of the Night, and Miami and the Siege of Chicago, situating them within broader debates about power, surveillance, ideology, and narrative authority.
The volume also places particular emphasis on Mailer’s nonfiction as an experimental literary form, foregrounding questions of voice, historiography, and self-representation. Essays explore Mailer’s blending of journalism, autobiography, and novelistic technique, underscoring the formal risks that continue to make his nonfiction central to discussions of postwar American literature.
Volume 13 further extends The Mailer Review’s commitment to documentary scholarship and intellectual community. The issue includes interviews, reflections, and book reviews that illuminate Mailer’s ongoing presence in contemporary criticism, as well as an updated bibliography that reinforces the journal’s function as a key research resource for scholars.
Taken together, Volume 13 demonstrates The Mailer Review’s dual investment in critical rigor and scholarly infrastructure. The issue captures a field attentive to Mailer’s enduring relevance as a political writer and formal innovator, while also sustaining the archival and institutional labor necessary to support the next phase of Mailer studies.
