The Observer (English)
"Upheavals on Campus"
by Kathleen Nott, London, England
April 1, 1962
"Sy Levin, Mr. Malamud's chief character, a natural Jeffersonian and a bearded ex-drunkard, with a degree and a passionate hope of self-reclamation through teaching literature, comes from New York to Cascadia College, an institution with a commercial and technological slant, in the agrarian and conservative American North-West."
