Alter, Robert, "The Real and Imaginary Worlds of Norman Mailer," in Motives for Fiction, Harvard University Press, 1984.
Alter discusses the novel's political themes.
Begiebing, Robert J, Acts of Regeneration. Allegory and Archetype in the Works of Norman Mailer, University of Missouri Press, 1980.
Examines the allegorical and symbolic elements in the novel
Bufithis, Philip H., Norman Mailer, Frederick Ungar, 1978. Bufithis studies the "naturalistic universe" of the novel.
Eisinger, Chester E., "The Naked and the Dead," edited by Jim Kamp, St James Press, 1994, pp 1019-020
Eisinger argues that naturalism "directs the progress of the story from.....
