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This article appeared in the August 15, 2005 edition of The Nation.

July 27, 2005

GOD AND MAN AND MAILER

A tsunami of letters--from Jews, Catholics, Buddhists, atheists, agnostics, humanists, existentialists and the unaffiliated (almost all of them men)--denounced Norman Mailer's "On Sartre's God Problem," our June 6 reprint of Mailer's remarks, in Libération, commemorating the centenary of Jean-Paul Sartre's birth. A sampling follows.   --The Editors


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