Darryl Pinckney

American novelist and essayist, a longtime contributor to the New York Review of Books; reckoned with Mailer and 'The White Negro' in The Nation.

Darryl Pinckney is an American novelist and essayist and a longtime contributor to the New York Review of Books. His 2022 essay My Norman Mailer Problem—and Ours in The Nation is a reckoning with Mailer and “The White Negro.”