War & No Peace
Time magazine's unsigned review of The Naked and the Dead (10 May 1948), calling it 'perhaps the best novel yet about World War II' and likening its battle scenes to Tolstoy. A foundational NAD-reception review; full text held (rights pending).
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“War & No Peace.” Unsigned review of The Naked and the Dead. Time, 10 May 1948, p. 62.
One of the earliest and most influential reviews of Mailer’s debut: Time judged that “a 25-year-old Harvard graduate who fought at Leyte has written perhaps the best novel yet about World War II,” praising its “simple realism” and a command of battle so vivid “as to suggest Tolstoy’s War and Peace.” The notice also flags the limits later critics would echo — its “too great length,” “the narrow political bias,” and the borrowing of the “Time Machine” flashback method “from Dos Passos.” The full text is held on the full-text page (rights pending).