Bernard Malamud / edited with an introduction by Harold Bloom.

The qualified encounter / Ihab Hassan
To find the westward path / John Hollander
The magic and the dread / Alfred Kazin
The economy of love / Jonathan Baumbach
Malamud and the anthropomorphic business / Herbert Leibowitz
The uses and abuses of commitment / F.W. Dupee
The natural : Malamud's world ceres / Earl R. Wasserman
A pariah / V.S. Pritchett
The stories / Sidney Richman
Four versions of pastoral / James M. Mellard
The hero as schnook / Alan Warren Friedman
A new life / Tony Tanner
"All men are Jews" / Allen Guttmann
Requiem for the schlemiel / Ruth R. Wisse
The artist in hell / Robert Ducharme
The return of the repressed / Mark Shechner.

A theological fantasy / Robert Alter
The tenants : "battering the object" / Alvin B. Kernan
In search of the real America / Sam B. Girgus.