Archive for October, 2010
Man vs. Madness
Recently I read Bernard Malamud‘s 1966 novel The Fixer, set in Russia in 1911. In it Yakov Bok is wrongly accused of killing a young boy and is jailed without a trial or benefit of legal defense – because his real “crime” is being a Jew. The Fixer is a fine, grim novel that made [...]
October 20, 2010
• Tags: Bernard Malamud, Blazing Saddles, Bob Newhart, Cleavon Little, Kafka, Ralph Ellison • Posted in: Categories • No Comments
