Bernard Malamud

Talking Horse: Bernard Malamud on Life and Work is a book edited by Alan Cheuse and Nicholas Delbanco.

The Assistant is Bernard Malamud's second novel. Set in a working-class neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York, it explores the situation of first- and second-generation Americans in the early 1950s, as experienced by three main characters and the relationships between them: an aging Jewish refugee from Tsarist Russia who …