Hitch-22 by Christopher Hitchens: “you are liable to undergo an abrupt shift of perspective that qualifies any nostalgia for Norman Mailer's "Armies of the Night" or Allen Ginsberg's quixotic attempt to levitate the building.”
On James Baldwin by Colm Tóibín: “Norman Mailer's Armies of the Night and his Miami and the Siege of Chicago, both works of imaginative and original political reporting, may equal his best novel, The Executioner's Song”