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This spring an unusual and virtually simultaneous blooming of senior novelists is taking place. Norman Mailer (see following review), Saul Bellow, the mysterious Thomas Pynchon and a seemingly perennial Philip Roth all have new works scheduled for publication. American Pastoral (Houghton Mifflin; 423 pages; $26) is Roth's fourth offering in fewer than seven years, making the 64-year-old a sort of Cal Ripkin of American letters...
Jesus of Nazareth was one of history's most powerful and charismatic teachers, but he never published. Until now. That, at any rate, is the premise of Norman Mailer's The Gospel According to the Son (Random House; 242 pages; $22), a novel that purports to be a first-person memoir written by Jesus. Questions will immediately occur, even to readers most willing to suspend their disbelief for the sake of the narrative to come. When did Jesus write this story, and for that matter, where? Why did he wait nearly 2,000 years to present his own Gospel...
...Shining' is no different from the standard movie-of-the-week that reminds us?in a third of the time?just how destructive substance abuse can be to an otherwise decent family." BOOKS . . . THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO THE SON: You needn?t be a Christian to find Norman Mailer's new novel (Random House; 242 pages; $22) purporting to be a first-person memoir written by Jesus a dubious and ultimately failed enterprise. Conceivably, imaginative literature at its highest pitch could do what tons of historical research and theological studies have failed to accomplish: present a convincing account of what...
Advocate trustees hosted a fundraiser--attended by alumni including Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. '38, Norman K. Mailer '43, Conan C. O'Brien '85 and Epps--on New York's East Side last Thursday to raise money for renovations to the building...
...mail to Stephen J. Mitby '99, an outspoken opponent of the resolution. It is funny because liberals traditionally pride themselves on tolerance of and respect for opposing on tolerance of and respect for opposing view-points and for a commitment to open-mindedness. It is scary because of the mailer's juvenile effort at intimidation and attempt to stifle free debate. Free speech, dialogue, and interchange in the "marketplace of ideas" are the very foundation of the liberal canon. What would John Stuart Mill have said? (My personal message to the not-so-intellectual hate-mailers, politics aside...