Books
October, 1971
In his latest novel, The Tenants (Farrar, Straus & Giroux), Bernard Malamud goes out on a literary limb and attempts to saw himself off. He doesn't succeed. He is too searching and original a writer to fail even when he handicaps his work with suicidal odds. In the first place, this is a novel about novelists--practically autodestruct material in the publishing field. In the second place, he probes black-white issues at their rawest points, daring a full-length portrait of a black-militant, anti...
