Norman Mailer: Works and Days

On Vietnam

Mailer's contribution to a Partisan Review symposium on Vietnam and the Dominican Republic; his "Mailer's Reply" prefigures his argument against the war in The Armies of the Night (68.8).

An essay written in response to a “Statement by the Editors of Partisan Review” on Vietnam and the Dominican Republic in the summer number. Mailer is one of 14 respondents. His “Mailer’s Reply,” which follows a reprinting of the editors’ statement, prefigures his argument against the war in The Armies of the Night (68.8).

Rpt: as “A Happy Solution to Vietnam: From a Partisan Review Symposium” in 66.11 and 68.11.

First published: 1965
Form: essay
Lennon & Lennon: 65.19
Cite as: /works/1965-on-vietnam
Last updated: 2026-05-30