Biography EssayIn recent years, it has been impossible to discuss the career of Bernard Malamud without mentioning his place as the second partner, along with Bellow and Roth, in the ruling triumvirat...
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Bernard Malamud (1914-1986) is considered one of the most prominent figures in Jewish-American literature, a movement that originated in the 1930s and is known for its tragicomic elements.Malamud's st...
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"The purpose of the writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself," Bernard Malamud remarked in 1958, quoting existential writer Albert Camus. He managed to uphold this purpose during his half...
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In recent years, it has been impossible to discuss the career of Bernard Malamud without mentioning his place as the second partner, along with Bellow and Roth, in the ruling triumvirate of Jewish-Ame...
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Bernard Malamud writes Jewish-American fiction. He has been a leader in this field for years and has received international acclaim for his novels and short stories. His first short story, "Benefit Pe...
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Bernard Malamud , along with Saul Bellow and Philip Roth, holds a preeminence among Jewish American writers that has consistently been reaffirmed by recent critical assessments. Early in Malamud cri...
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turned 88 today. Four years ago the New Zealand papers had him dying, still he keeps going.
I bring him up because I wrote a book about the murder of a Peace Corps volunteer by another Peace Corp...
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A jury on Wednesday spared the life of a woman who killed an acquaintance and hacked up her body with a chainsaw, sentencing her to life in prison without parole.Daphne Wright, 43, smiled after the...
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Q: At a dinner party, I heard a Saddleback Church member say Catholics were not Christians. What is the reasoning behind such a remark? — Ann Sloan Jones, Aliso ViejoA: Evangelicals and Roman...
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Who was Mailer? He growled, boxed, inhabited the Earth. Breslin: 'People think he was a crazed creature—he wasn't.' MORE ... The subject was old age. Norman Mailer said there was a grace in a...
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It's important to care about politics. It's even more important not to care deeply. As Gutenberg College professor Charles Dewberry notes, "If politics can fix a problem, then Christianity is a lie...
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"I think heaven is at least one million times better than the best cruise in the world!" says Zachary, 9.Maybe this is why cruise ships are so popular. Deep in our hearts, we know there's a perfect...
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Several years ago I wrote a snotty essay, “The Smiley Face at the End of the Tunnel,” which posited that very good but not great writers of secular disposition often produce an uncommo...
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Does John Edwards include Jews in his prayers? Or Muslims? Or Hindus? Or any other non-Christians? He didn't the other day. The other day, in order to commemorate those killed at...
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Bernard Malamud
Bernard Malamud
Bernard Malamud
Taking Communion in Tonga
