Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Content vii
3. Preface ix
4. Introduction xi
5. The Author
6. Malamud in Corvallis 3
7. Recollecting Bernie 13
8. Remembrances 25
9. Malamud 29
10. On the Magic Barrel 35
11. The Rhythms of Friendship in the Life of Art 43
12. Individual Works
13. America and the History of the Jews in Bernard Malamud’s ‘The Last Mohican’ 59
14. Zen Buddhism and The Assistant 69
15. Malamud’s New [Academic] Life—and Ours 87
16. Lives of Dubin 101
17. Gorilla in the Myth 111
18. Thematic Threads: Patterns in Malamud’s Fiction
19. Reflections on Transmogrified Yiddish Archetypes in Fiction by Bernard Malamud 123
20. Not True Although Truth 139
21. Bernard and Juliet 153
22. Bernard Malamud and Cynthia Ozick 161
23. Bernard Malamud and his Universal Menschen 167
24. A Kind of Vigilance 175
25. Annotated Select Bibliography
26. Annotated Select Bibliography 189
27. Contributors 209
28. Index 213