Will Norman: 4 books

The intellectual migration to the United States of European writers, intellectuals, and artists in the 1930s and 1940s has often been narrowly seen as a clash between a rarefied European modernist sensibility and a debased American mass culture. In Transatlantic Aliens, Will Norman reorients our understanding...

This book argues that the apparent evasion of history in Vladimir Nabokov’s fiction conceals a profound engagement with social, and therefore political, temporalities. While Nabokov scholarship has long assumed the same position as Nabokov himself — that his works exist in a state of historical...

Bang!Bang!Bang!The blows came in hard and sure, and each one found its mark. I was immediately left reeling, dazed, confused and nauseated.This was September 1989 and I was sitting in Northampton General Hospital in a Doctor’s office. I had just been told that I had Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma,...

Hello I’m Will, And I’ve written a book for men, all about women…all the things that I think they need to know. However there is a problem - like a lot of men I started out clueless, and never really improved from there. I speak as the authority…the authority on failing miserably...