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Critical Studies

• Adams, Laura (1977). Existential Battles: the Growth of Norman Mailer. Athens: Ohio UP.
• —, ed. (1974). Will the Real Norman Mailer Please Stand Up. Port Washington; London: Kennikat Press.
• Aldridge, John W. (1966). Time to Murder and Create: The Contemporary Novel in Crisis. New York: David McKay.
• Begiebing, Robert J. (1980). Acts of Regeneration: Allegory and Archetype in the Works of Norman Mailer. Columbia; London: University of Missouri Press.
• Bloom, Harold, ed. (1986). Norman Mailer. Modern Critical Views. Philadelphia, PA: Chelsea House.
• Braudy, Leo, ed. (1972). Norman Mailer: a Collection of Critical Essays. Twentieth Century Views. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall.
• Broer, Lawrence R. (2016). "Meta-Modernism in An American Dream". The Mailer Review. 10 (1): 99–116.
• Bufithis, Philip (1978). Norman Mailer. New York: Frederick Ungar.
• Cotkin, George (2003). Existential America. Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press.
• Dickstein, Morris (2002). Leopards in the Temple: The Transformation of American Fiction, 1945-1970. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
• Ehrlich, Robert (1978). Norman Mailer: The Radical as Hipster. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press.
• Fetterley, Judith (1986). "An American Dream: 'Hula, Hula,' Said the Witches". In Lennon, J. Michael. Critical Essays on Norman Mailer. Boston: G.K. Hall & Co. pp. 136–144.
• — (1978). The Resisting Reader: A Feminist Approach to American Fiction. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
• Glenday, Michael K. (1995). Norman Mailer. New York: St. Martins Press.
• Glickman, Susan (1982–1983). "The World as Will and Idea: A Comparative Study of An American Dream and Mr. Sammler's Planet". Modern Fiction Studies. 28: 569–582.
• Gordon, Andrew (1980). An American Dreamer: A Psychoanalytic Study of the Fiction of Norman Mailer. London: Fairleigh Dickinson UP.
• — (1977). "The Modern Dream-Vision: Freud's The Interpretation of Dreams and Mailer's An American Dream". Literature and Psychology. 27 (3): 100–105.
• Gutman, Stanley T. (1975). Mankind in Barbary: The Individual and Society in the Novels of Norman Mailer. Hanover, NH: University Press of New England.
• Hampton, Jill (1990). Mythic Mailer in An American Dream (M.A.). University of Illinois at Springfield.
• Kaufmann, Donald (2007) [1969]. "An American Dream: The Singular Nightmare". The Mailer Review. 1 (1): 194–214. Retrieved 2019-05-01.
• — (1969). Norman Mailer: The Countdown (The First Twenty Years). Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press.
• Langbaum, Robert (Fall 1968). "Mailer's New Style". Novel: 69–78.
• — (1970). The Modern Spirit: Essays on the Continuity of Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Literature. New York: Oxford University Press.
• Leeds, Barry H. (1969). The Structured Vision of Norman Mailer. New York: NYU Press.
• — (2002). The Enduring Vision of Norman Mailer. Bainbridge Island, Wash.: Pleasure Boat Studio.
• — (1993). "Scorsese vs. Mailer: Boxing as Redemption in Raging Bull and An American Dream". (Unpublished Essay): 1–11.
• Lennon, J. Michael, ed. (1986). Critical Essays on Norman Mailer. Critical Essays on American Literature. Boston: G. K. Hall.
• —, ed. (2004). Norman Mailer's Letters on An American Dream, 1963–1969. Shavertown, PA: Sligo Press. (04.7)
• Lucid, Robert F., ed. (1971). Norman Mailer: The Man and His Work. Boston: Little, Brown.
• Madden, David, ed. (1970). American Dreams, American Nightmares. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press.
• McConnell, Frank D. (1977). "Norman Mailer and the Cutting Edge of Style". Four Postwar American Novelists: Bellow, Mailer, Barth and Pynchon. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
• McKinley, Maggie (2015). "Existentialism, Violent Liberation, and Racialized Masculinities: Norman Mailer's "The White Negro" and An American Dream". Masculinity and the Paradox of Violence in American Fiction, 1950-75. London: Bloomsbury Academic.
• — (Fall 2012). "Mailer's Modern Myth: Reexamining Violence and Masculinity in An American Dream". The Mailer Review. 6 (1): 158–169.
• Meloy, Michael (2009). "Tales of the "Great Bitch": Murder and the Release of Virile Desire An American Dream". The Mailer Review. 3 (1): 337–356. Retrieved 2019-04-29.
• Merrill, Robert (1992). Norman Mailer Revisited. Boston: Twayne.
• Millett, Kate (2016) [1970]. "Norman Mailer". Sexual Politics. New York: Columbia University Press. pp. 314–335.
• Parker, Hershel (1972). Flawed Texts and Verbal Icons: Literary Authority in American Fiction.
• Poirier, Richard (1972). Norman Mailer. Modern Masters. New York: Viking Press.
• Radford, Jean (1975). Norman Mailer: A Critical Study. London; Basingstoke: Macmillan Press.
• Schulz, Max F. (1969). Radical Sophistication: Studies in Contemporary Jewish-American Novelists. Athens: Ohio University Press.
• Solotaroff, Robert (1974). Down Mailer's Way. Urbana: U of Illinois P.
• Tanner, Tony (1971). "On the Parapet". City of Words: American Fiction 1950–1970. New York: Harper & Row. pp. 344–371.
• Toback, James (October 1967). "Norman Mailer Today". Commentary. pp. 67–76.
• Wagenheim, Allan J. (1968). "Square's Progress: An American Dream". Critique. 10: 45–68.
• Weber, Brom (1965). "A Fear of Dying: Norman Mailer's An American Dream". The Hollins Critic. II (3): 1–11.
• Weinberg, Helen A. (1970). The New Novel in America: The Kafkan Mode in Contemporary Fiction. New York: Cornell University Press.
• Wood, Margery (1966). "Norman Mailer and Nathalie Sarraute: A Comparison of Existential Novels". Minnesota Review. 6: 68–76. Reprinted in

Interviews

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• Adams, Laura (1975). "Existential Aesthetics: An Interview with Norman Mailer". Partisan Review. 42 (summer): 197–214. Reprinted in Lennon (1988).
• Bower, Brock (October 15, 1965). "In this Corner, Norman Mailer: Never the Champion, Always the Challenger". Life: 94–96, 98, 100, 102, 105–066, 109–112, 115, 117.
• Carroll, Paul (January 1968). "Playboy Interview: Norman Mailer". Playboy. pp. 69–72, 74, 76, 78, 80, 82–84. Retrieved 2019-04-24. Reprinted in Lucid.
• Gelmis, Joseph (1970). The Film Director as Superstar. New York: Doubleday.
• MacGregor, Martha (March 14, 1965). "The Week in Books". New York Post.
• Matz, Charles (1970). "Mailer's Opera". Opera News. 34 (17): 14–16.
• Medwick, Cathleen (December 1980). "Norman Mailer on Love, Sex, God and the Devil". Vogue. pp. 268–269, 322. Partially reprinted in Mailer’s Pieces and Pontifications.
• "Mr. Mailer Interviews Himself". New York Times Book Review. September 17, 1967. pp. 4–5, 40. Reprinted in Lennon (1988).
• "Norman Mailer on An American Dream". New York Post. March 25, 1965. p. 38. Reprinted in Lennon (1988).
• Weber, Nancy (March 1965). "Norman Mailer's 'American Dream': Superman Returns". Books, New York Post. pp. 14–16.
• Young, Gavin (April 26, 1964). "A Conversation with Norman Mailer". Observer Weekly. London. p. 26.

Major Reviews

• Aldridge, John W. (March 19, 1965). "The Big Comeback of Norman Mailer". Life. p. 12. Reprinted and expanded in Aldridge and Braudy.
• Alvarez, A. (May 7, 1965). "Norman X". The Spectator. p. 603.
• Bersani, Leo (1965). "Interpretation of Dreams". Partisan Review. 32 (fall): 603–608. Reprinted in Braudy and Lucid.
• Corrington, John William (1965). "An American Dreamer". Chicago Review. 18: 58–66.
• Didion, Joan (April 20, 1965). "A Social Eye". National Review. pp. 329–330.
• Epstein, Joseph (April 17, 1965). "Norman X: The Literary Man's Cassius Clay". New Republic. pp. 22, 24–25.
• Hardwick, Elizabeth (1964). "Bad Boy". Partisan Review. Vol. 32 (spring ed.). pp. 291–294. Reprinted in Lucid.
• "In Carcinoma City". Times Literary Supplement. London. April 29, 1965. p. 325.
• Hyman, Stanley Edgar (March 15, 1965). "Norman Mailer's Yummy Rump". New Leader. pp. 16–17. Reprinted in Braudy.
• Kermode, Frank (May 14, 1965). "Rammel". New Statesman. pp. 765–766.
• Knickerbocker, Conrad (March 14, 1965). "A Man Desperate for a New Life". New York Times Book Review. pp. 1, 36, 38–39.
• Muste, John M. (February 1965). "Nightmarish Mailer". Progressive. pp. 49–51.
• Pickerel, Paul (April 1965). "Thing of Darkness". Harper's. pp. 116–117.
• Poirier, Richard (June 1965). "'Morbid-Mindedness'". Commentary. pp. 91–94. Reprinted in Lucid.
• Rahv, Philip (March 25, 1965). "Crime without Punishment". New York Review of Books. pp. 1–4.
• Ricks, Christopher (April 30, 1965). "Saint Stephen". New Statesman. p. 687.
• Shattuck, Roger (May 13, 1965). "Books: An American Dream". Village Voice. pp. 5, 22.
• Weber, Brom (1965). "A Fear of Dying: Norman Mailer's An American Dream". Hollins Critic. 2 (June): 8–11.
• Wolfe, Tom (March 14, 1965). "Son of Crime and Punishment, or: How to Go Eight Fast Rounds with the Heavyweight Champ and Lose". Washington Post. Book Week. pp. 1, 10, 12–13. Reprinted in Lucid.