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February 27, 2024

Bernard Malamud’s Patient Jewish Shopkeepers

“What kind of living?—a living; you lived.”

Next month, the Library of America will publish the third and final volume of the collected works of the Brooklyn-born Jewish author Bernard Malamud (1914–1986). Vivian Gornick considers Malamud’s oeuvre, and compares it to that of the two figures whose names are often uttered in the same breath as his: Saul Bellow and Philip Roth.

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