'How dare you scorn the explosive I employ?'
Novelist, essayist, filmmaker, provocateur-at-large — no writer of his generation looked more deeply, or with such an original turn of mind, into the predicaments of his time.
His final year as Russia's President has been his most successful yet. At home, he secured his political future. Abroad, he expanded his outsize—if not always benign—influence on global affairs
Norman Mailer 1923-2007