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Aleksandar Hemon Discusses Bernard Malamud

The New Yorker: Fiction

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Is Khatan Zara a Change Maker?

Malamud has all these soft touches they come out naturally and he would not even think about them twice. What is touching on the story is that everyone warns George to be a reader. The father who doesn't talk much just weeps because his son has not read enough. If there's self-knowledge at the end of the story it's moral self- knowledge.

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