Norman Mailer: Works and Days

A Hell of a Performance

Andrew Delbanco's 2024 New York Review of Books essay-review of the Library of America edition of The Naked and the Dead and Mailer's Selected Letters, 1945–1946. An about-Mailer clipping.

Andrew Delbanco. “A Hell of a Performance.” The New York Review of Books, 18 April 2024. https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2024/04/18/a-hell-of-a-performance-norman-mailer/

An essay-review of the Library of America’s edition of The Naked and the Dead together with Mailer’s Selected Letters, 1945–1946 (edited by J. Michael Lennon), reading the young Mailer’s wartime novel and letters together.

First published: 2024-04-18
Form: criticism
Cite as: /works/2024-04-18-delbanco-hell-of-a-performance
Last updated: 2026-06-26