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From: The Torah U-Madda Journal[(essay date 17) In the following essay, Watts reads “The Magic Barrel” theologically, using Soloveitchik’s theories about the Bible’s presentation of two origins of Man in order to “offer new explanations for why and...
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From: The Magic Worlds of Bernard Malamud[(essay date 2001) In the following essay, Delbanco offers an overview of the stories in The Magic Barrel and discusses the reception of Malamud’s collection.] I first met Bernard Malamud in 1966. I was an ambitious...
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From:Contemporary Popular WritersThe novels and stories of Bernard Malamud deal with downtrodden losers whose lives consist of facing hardship and humiliation, which they may or may not be able to endure. Many of his characters are Jewish, inhabiting...