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Bernard Malamud The Natural
Selected Short Stories
Website EvaluatorsBarbara Laurain - South Windsor High School, Connecticut
Marcia Lubell – Pace University, New York
Sherry Medwin - New Trier High School, Illinois
Penelope Springmann - Roger High School, Arkansas Website Reviewer and Compiler
Charles R. Sanders - San Pedro High School, California Site Ratings 1 = Poor 2 = Fair 3 = Good 4 = Excellent
Bernard Malamud
http://www.emanuelnyc.org/bulletin/archive/35.html This limited biography of Bernard
Malamud "attempts to evaluate his place within American Jewish literature." The author of this site calls Malamud "one of the most profound literati of our age," and offers a discussion of "The Magic Barrel,"
The Fixer, and The Assistant, to support this claim. The writing is "simplistic" and the format is "annoying," but "a quick read of this web site might be helpful" for students.
Overall Rating: 2
Malamud Home 2
http://www2.dokkyo.ac.jp/~esemi006/malamud/index2.htm This Bernard Malamud site appears to be one
resource of an on-line college literature course. It contains a chronology of Malamud's life, a bibliography, lists of novels and short stories, and an essay by the professor of the course, on Malamud's short
stories, "The First Seven Years" and "Benefit Performance." A link to Alta Vista provides access to a number of other Malamud sites, although it is "a bit difficult to navigate." There is "useful information
on this site if you work at it."
Overall Rating: 2The Seattle Times: Today's News: Revisiting Bernard Malamud's Shorter Work
http://www.seattletimes.com/extra/browse/html97/altmala_110297.html
This newspaper article is a review of Bernard Malamud's The Complete Stories,
a collection of 55 short stories published from 1940 to 1984. The author of the article discusses how the "short story has lost its luster" in the present age, he comments on two stories from the collection, "The Magic Barrel" and "The Loan," and finally, he examines some of Malamud's short story techniques. Teachers and students might find the article to be useful in the study of short story writing and in the "succinct synopses" of the two selections.
Overall Rating: 2Book Page Fiction Review: The Complete Stories
http://www.bookpage.com/9709bp/fiction/bernardmalamud.html
From the national review magazine, Book Page, comes this review of Bernard Malamud's The Complete Stories, a collection of 55 short
stories. The author of the review notes that Malamud took "the Jew as his starting point for what was most human in humankind," and reminds us that "these stories are for you and about you." Included are
brief discussions of "Idiots First," "The Jewbird," "Angel Levine," and "The German Refugee." This site may be "useful to students seeking insight into themes of Malamud's stories."
Overall Rating: 2
Excerpt from "God's Grace"
http://www.npr.org/programs/death/readings/stories/malamud.html This excerpt from Bernard
Malamud's story, "God's Grace," is one part of a larger site from National Public Radio entitled "The End of Life: Exploring Death in America." The story reflects on the "meaning of life and death and of the
fragile human condition." The text is easy to read and a "link explaining Kaddish is excellent." This is a "thought-provoking passage" and "will get any classroom talking."
Overall Rating: 2 |
