Thumb-wrestling and wife beating – inside the pathetic life of Norman Mailer
As Richard Bradford's Tough Guy shows, the American novelist was clearly a horrid human being. But why keep dwelling on his rottenness?
As Richard Bradford's Tough Guy shows, the American novelist was clearly a horrid human being. But why keep dwelling on his rottenness?
Driving across the US with an envelope full of banknotes, the protagonist of Jonathan Dee's novel Sugar Street starts a new life off-grid
The Passenger's follow-up is a transcript of a girl talking to her therapist. If only she didn't sound just like an old, male novelist…
When novelist Stefan Hertmans learnt his home once belonged to 'a Jew-hunter for the Waffen-SS', he dug deeper – and discovered a grim story