Forty-six years on, the strangest thing about the conversation, which became the subject of a ­documentary, is surely that we are still having it. “Oh, I know. For a while there I thought this is ...

Listen to more stories on the Noa app. The contemporary brief against Norman Mailer is long and sordid. He was a misogynist, a violent man who extolled violence. In his brawling and chest-thumping, he ...