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 * {{Anchor|Cappell (2016)}}{{cite journal |last1=Cappell |first1=Ezra |date=2016 |title=Hemingway’s Jewish Progeny |url= |journal=Mailer Review |volume=10 |issue=1 |pages=208–228 |doi= |access-date= }}
 * {{Anchor|Capote (1985)}}{{cite book |last=Capote |first=Truman |date=1985 |title=Conversations with Capote |url=https://archive.org/details/conversationswit00grob |editor-last=Grobel |editor-first=Lawrence |location=New York |publisher=New American Library |pages=112–116, passim |isbn= |author-link= }} Capote criticizes ''The Executioner’s Song'' ([[79.14]]).
+* {{Anchor|Foster (1968)}}{{cite book |last=Foster |first=Richard Jackson |date=1968 |title=Norman Mailer |url=https://archive.org/details/normanmailer00fost |location=Minneapolis |publisher=U of Minnesota P |volume=73 |series=University of Minnesota Pamphlets on American Writers |ref=harv}} Rpt: [[#Lucid (1971)|Lucid (1971)]]; partial in [[#Bloom (1986)|Bloom (1986)]]. This monograph, one of the first extended treatments of Mailer’s work, is still one of the best. Excellent on Mailer’s urgent, “forcing style.”
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+* {{Anchor|Glenday (1995)}}{{cite book |last=Glenday |first=Michael |date=1995 |title=Norman Mailer |url= |location=London |publisher=Macmillan |author-link= |ref=harv}} Examines Mailer’s novels in a socio-political context. Contains one of the finest discussions of ''Why Are We in Vietnam'' ([[67.15]]), which he deftly relates to the issues of the day.
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-* {{Anchor|Lennon (1986)}}{{cite book |editor-last=Lennon |editor-first=J. Michael |date=1986 |title=Critical Essays on Norman Mailer |series=Critical Essays on American Literature |url= |location=Boston |publisher=G. K. Hall |page= |isbn= |author-link=J. Michael Lennon }} Ten reviews and ten essays, including two original ones: Robert F. Lucid’s overview of his proposed biography and Michael Cowan’s on Mailer’s Americanness. Introduction summarizes critical response to Mailer’s work.
+* {{Anchor|Leeds (2002)}}{{cite book |last=Leeds |first=Barry H. |date=2002 |title=The Enduring Vision of Norman Mailer |url= |location=Bainbridge Island, Wash. |publisher=Pleasure Boat Studio |ref=harv }} Examination of Mailer’s later works, including an interview with Mailer, and a deft descriptive chapter, “The Critical Climate: Books on Mailer.”
+* {{Anchor|Leeds (1969)}}{{cite book |last=Leeds |first=Barry H. |date=1969 |title=[[The Structured Vision of Norman Mailer]] |url= |location=New York |publisher=NYU Press |ref=harv }} First major study of Mailer’s work; valuable for its analysis of ''An American Dream'' ([[65.7]]), and consideration of ''The Armies of the Night'' ([[68.8]]) and ''Deaths for the Ladies (and Other Disasters)'' ([[62.3]]).
+* {{Anchor|Leigh (1990)}}{{cite book |last=Leigh |first=Nigel |date=1990 |title=Radical Fictions and the Novels of Norman Mailer |url=https://archive.org/details/radicalfictions00leig |location=London |publisher=Macmillan |author-link= |ref=harv}} Leigh writes about Mailer and power from a Foucauldian perspective, but ignores the nonfiction narratives. Excellent readings of ''Why Are We in Vietnam?'' ([[67.15]]) and ''Ancient Evenings'' ([[83.18]]). Many misquotations, typos, incorrect page numbers.
+* {{Anchor|Lennon (1986a)}}{{cite book |editor-last=Lennon |editor-first=J. Michael |date=1986 |title=Critical Essays on Norman Mailer |url= |location=Boston |publisher=G.K. Hall & Co. |author-link=J. Michael Lennon |ref=harv}} Ten reviews and ten essays, including two original ones: Robert F. Lucid’s overview of his proposed biography and Michael Cowan’s on Mailer’s Americanness. Introduction summarizes critical response to Mailer’s work.
+* {{Anchor|Lennon (1986)}}{{cite book |editor-last=Lennon |editor-first=J. Michael |editor-mask=1 |date=1986 |title=Critical Essays on Norman Mailer |series=Critical Essays on American Literature |url= |location=Boston |publisher=G. K. Hall |page= |isbn= |author-link=J. Michael Lennon }} Ten reviews and ten essays, including two original ones: Robert F. Lucid’s overview of his proposed biography and Michael Cowan’s on Mailer’s Americanness. Introduction summarizes critical response to Mailer’s work.
 * {{Anchor|Lucid (1971)}}{{cite book |editor-last=Lucid |editor-first=Robert F. |date=1971 |title=Norman Mailer: The Man and His Work |url=https://archive.org/details/normanmailermana00luci |location=Boston |publisher=Little, Brown |page= |isbn= |author-link= }} First major collection of essays: 13 on his work, four on his life and Paul Carroll’s interview ([[68.1]]). Contains checklist of his work and important introduction in which Lucid attempts to resolve the apparent conflict between Mailer’s public and artistic activities.
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+* {{Anchor|Merrill (1978)}}{{cite book |last=Merrill |first=Robert |date=1978 |title=Norman Mailer |url=https://archive.org/details/normanmailer00merr |publisher=Twayne Publishers |location=Boston |ref=harv }} Thoughtful examination of the formal structure of Mailer’s novels and nonfiction narratives; contains perhaps best analysis of ''The Executioner’s Song'' ([[79.14]]). Includes biographical chapter. Most comprehensive study to date.
+* {{Anchor|Merrill (1992)}}{{cite book |last=Merrill |first=Robert |date=1992 |title=Norman Mailer Revisited |location=Boston |publisher=Twayne Publishers |author-link= |ref=harv}}
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+* {{Anchor|Poirier (1972)}}{{cite book |last=Poirier |first=Richard |date=1972 |title=Norman Mailer |series=Modern Masters |url=https://archive.org/details/normanmailer0000poir |location=New York |publisher=Viking Press |author-link= |ref=harv}} Rpt: Partial in [[#Bloom (1986)|Bloom (1986)]]. Still considered to be most intelligent study of Mailer. Contains three chapters: on Mailer’s career, his relation to history, and his dualisms. Poirier’s Mailer is perhaps too postmodern, but Poirier is acute on Mailer’s endlessly modulating rhetoric, even if he is incredulous about Mailer’s cosmology.
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+* {{Anchor|Wenke (1987)}}{{cite book |last=Wenke |first=Joseph |date=2014 |orig-year=1987 |title=Mailer's America |url= |location=Hanover, NH; London |publisher=University Press of New England for University of Connecticut |author-link= }} Wenke’s focus is almost completely thematic. Contains first extended treatment of ''Ancient Evenings'' ([[83.18]]).
+* {{Anchor|Whalen-Bridge (2010)}}{{cite book |editor-last=Whalen-Bridge |editor-first=John |date=2010 |title=Norman Mailer's Later Fictions: Ancient Evenings through Castle in the Forest |url= |location= |publisher=Springer |author-link= |ref=harv}} Foreword by Jason Epstein. Afterword by Norris Church Mailer. Eleven essays on Mailer’s novels from ''Ancient Evenings'' ([[83.18]]) to ''The Castle in the Forest'' ([[07.10]]).
+* {{Anchor|Whalen-Bridge (1998)}}{{cite book |last=Whalen-Bridge |first=John |date=1998 |title=Political Fiction and the American Self |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6dGxkiZ0J4AC |location=Urbana |publisher=U of Illinois P |author-link= |ref=harv}} Subtle examination of Mailer's dual aptitude of representing and resisting American mythologies.
 * {{Anchor|Widmer (1965)}}{{cite book |last=Widmer |first=Kingsley |date=1965 |chapter=Several American Perplexes |title=The Literary Rebel |url= |location=Carbondale |publisher=Southern Illinois University Press |pages=175–198 |isbn= |author-link= }} Comparison of Mailer and Paul Goodman.
 * {{Anchor|Wilson (2008)}}{{cite book |last=Wilson |first=Andrew |date=2008 |title=Norman Mailer: An American Aesthetic |url= |location=Oxford, England |publisher=Peter Lang |page= |isbn= |author-link= }}
 * {{Anchor|Zavarzadeh (1976)}}{{cite book |last=Zavarzadeh |first=Mas'ud |date=1976 |title=The Mythopoeic Reality: The Postwar American Nonfiction Novel |url=https://archive.org/details/mythopoeicrealit0000zava |location=Urbana |publisher=University of Illinois Press |pages=153–176 and passim |isbn= |author-link= }} Attempts to prove, unconvincingly, that ''The Armies of the Night'' ([[68.8]]) has a “zero degree of interpretation” of reality.