From New York, a cover story on the Rise of Mailerism: Norman Mailer’s God, not surprisingly, is a great artist, who created mankind and all the plants and other animals, and could reincarnate them according to his whim. But he was not all-powerful. Because there was the Devil—and the Devil had technology. And lately, the Devil seems to be winning. A light in the darkness: A review of The Several Lives of Joseph Conrad by John Stape. From PopMatters, an article on Allen Ginsberg and the politics of ecstasy. The whole truth: Ted Hughes was one of the most original and powerful visionary poets of the 20th century. Here's a three-part serialisation of his Letters. Shaper of the canon Edmund Wilson gets his place in it.
